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on CLA LesiviGes. -: 0 ‘a+ Her Cubsn
sources, the CIA Fas. : expel eve
olved int | a’ lecnch =
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cape while he was out of the count y
visitingg Uhe United! States and South
Ameren, :

Qne night she waa with Castro, and
hin bodyptuards an the Tobby of the -
Kiaveera Tfotel when na handweme, waves
haved man anpraucbed hee, He were
tie abveareen cohel uniform and’ the
signia oof a vtplai om the Cuban air
furee, : :

While Castra was conferring with
his sides on the other side of the
Jobby, the eaptain mingled with the
bariudes around Marie and whispers
tu her in English: °f know about you.” ”

"Can you help awl” she responded.
“Can you get me out of here?” ,

“Yes. i/’m with the American
Embassy. Pil get you aut.” :

This was her iuitreduction te Com-
mandante Frank’ Fiorini (later knuwn
as Frank Sturjtis),
avd hired agent foe the
Jatellizence Agency.

Castro confidant
US. Cenzral

Agrees to Spy on Fidel

For the next few weeks Frank kept
in contact with her in person and
throush Castro ‘officers who were
working for him. BMaotie agreed to spy
on Castro. She filched areret documenta
and reported Castru's conversations
with tnpartant visiteurs overheard
through the hotel walls. By now, she
could Spanish fairly
well.

The svite eas fall of guns and |
papers,” she awid. “Fidel hod pagers

read and speak

f a J : re! i ' { | y i .
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: ss See ae ie id Re Leras| Laas are | Oo aie
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4 4 Re ria A aos Ul . ‘
. (Continua from pave 2) 1 7! “the dati, cari apie dictator, Hathher ee i od
: ‘ a Pe airborne ilnsic werd shaltered 'y : Q soe
“ lowered b ay batten (bess ded giilersthe plane thdee re ae “4 vo
abhard i lenteds Kr o wos an
jog feeim thei belts and gyiy hgh? veld “idealistic then," she ..
re jpune switging a theic a 4 wna ie “°° an adventur pnd
fi 1 toy First Ju; was going torhelp
i : ener
ann . . the! new, overn punt. Uaatead, | bepune
— neath SME, GONE eased [Centre's playthiygep EE
34 I oe : ine
gacket: d havban “f LeKeving the ship { “f yas dei inj from the alrpolt to!
wea twing raided by condi But-other, the Havana i€)}lon, where Fidel? had
Arwerwan! teatists recognised the Jrader aes over ies Ath flour. For the fuext
of the sinister-loskingy fund as | Fidel {tear ronths,: Fe oardly ever got git of
See eee minister of'Cuhs, {the Uedtom, Whit { did set out, fl waa ,-
Gaxire, the new Pp 7 \ 1
eink they crowded around him for, auto- rondce guard. 12 wanted to go dopa to :
: ; the pool or coffee shup, tho barivados ca
Pra friend’he shoule lt! obvtansly would Ko with mb” a vee E
Ce ying the rowrhotion he Piuud caused. EWed His Priloner’ ty . * :
, >The Hevlin’s shapper, fordier G Asled Hetine her relatio whip :
Navy Capt, Ucidrich Lorenz, 1 swith Castro dufiny: this pagiod. Sais
Cir Parties ty aay for carktaitey and ,ieaid: “l war ty Prisoner, | was Mrap- ’
+ alitner, and he introduecd Onstro t)) hia. Uped."" tS a
sifarious b-year-gid dauchter, Mang)‘ “Were youl ever in love fi pith *
SLUM father Behe Spaninh ang he > Fidel?” °
sot aluny well with Castro,” Barie[old “No; never. How can you be id ove ¥
this reporter. “He took Castro and) hia when you're afrpid, when you're trated
ign on & tour of the: ship) then ked (like @ piewe af‘ farntlure, when pyu're, *
thom to please leave their guns af sihde { steeping with a live bazooka, wadeg the
Ad fining room befera “ set hed, when yous diving jin. room with i
of dinner, . . + UNS On Cvery e and cigdr but{s al r?
. Fa ro suid they ‘didnwk feel ‘safe | over the floar?” at i
without | cuns, so my: father allpved Aly way of’ thinking.was Gerijan.”; .
tam to keep ther pistols, But he jade shel continued, “Everything. in inst life
Liem legve the machine gus, autora had been very orderly, very neat’ and
ie‘ riflea’ and grenades in the smoking clean. ( never realized anyene, esrcial-
r Toate” . . ly e prime minister, could be so Te
4 Paste: sat at the eaptiin’a lalles | cusined. 1 Uioueht he would have ;
i bgt vent Lerens a Marie (uring the 2 sevprul offices, with dvBks, chairge and ae
Jf facials he auld | rege & ate, btelephones. Ail he had, at this Joint,
: nad she, wat as piapresscd a aay ne waa os suiteef rooms atthe ff 'ltan,
nil teebare girk wou! e by come F where he lived andl worked 1 wadtkept
: meénta foi, the flamboyant hero of the Pin uno of the roogs. Thy dvor the :
ne] Caban rgvolution,! : hi . al fr . “tome _—
san Pciate” German and sation, | Halts lacked frm the” ouside =
which she had learned from her Atnetic | pools, but the door between the en
ny can mofher. Castro said he needed @ [wis kept locked, : , father brought Maria Lorenz and Fidal Castro logother. It began a
° : See ene Before the wal was f “AM 1 could do was, read Selous, liaison dostined to have international repercussions
z : - : . . } :
over, he offered the job ta Marie. i aed Spanish, gut ox det iain
. " 4 Ql wl je Priageiay ‘ .
| Took Offer As Joke any look out over Havana, {) waa where dictator Fulxencio Ratista had -
{ “He asked me to stay In Havana p Miserable, My futher tried to find out imprivoncd Fidel and Rail (Fidel's
i and work far him,” ake said“hy fa. | WAAt hud happened to me. He euntuct- brother) years before, 1 went into the
3 thee and I both laughed, Sfy father ,¢ the American Embassy in Havana cell to look at a bronze plaque on the
j said | was going back to Germany to } Marie was horn ue American citizen) wall. They shut the door and locked me
| © finish my education.” : but nothing: happeued. inthe eel Thea they went away,
foo j tro promised to write, ta Der 0 hrourhe only slothen F had were what t She Wasn't Pampered
3 u ve ily FATE EE Sh oe i. . 7
i aats' home in Nremen. Germany, and f couldn’s ko out to buy anything, Fidel “EP ogpent a week there, eating the
: hee brather’s apartment in New York, ? had sme measired for a uniform jyo bo same foud as the other prineners- -
eam, where she planned fo stay. when the { would look like a member of the 26th blacks beans, rice, stale bread and cof-
Caribbean cruise ended. She never ex. § a July Movetuent. An olive-greentuni- fee. As fur ax | know, | was the only
ucted to sce or hear fom Fidel again. 9°) form with # linutenunt’s atar. . woman there,
® About two weeks later, twe Cuban “Phat way, when | was allowed out very muening we would hear the
officers called on Marie in New York: | under guard, he thought people would firing squuds. As soon as it Kot Wight,
They earricd a message from Castro, | think Towne of hig offtecre t+ But. the birds would start singing, Thea the
saying Le was-in desperate need of an I almont every Mavana housewife ‘heard guns would go off, Then marching and
English-German translator. He had sent fumurs that Castro waa beeping a for- quiet, Then breakfast and cell checks.
s Cubana Airlines plane to being her eigner, an American girl, at the Hiltdn, The guards would check to see if you'd
back to Havana. . _ st! bwus becoting a problem to hin. | hanjred yoursel{ during the night or if
4 “Lt made a big inistake,” Marie said, “One day two bardudes came be the you'd done semething wrong in there
t § ;
. “Ff got on that plane.” roma while Fidel was out, They asid where there was hardly room to turn
: During the flight to Havana, she | they were thee to help me. ‘They tock sround, It was hos rible. .
i trivd to imugine her hfe in Castroland. me on a 20-nfinets jfune ride! bo the “itor aeven days, 1 was taken out
] She thuueht she welt fave a dork in Po. «? fie 2 thy wllowed (methe and dlowa back to Havana,
i ! the premier’s sccujatiat pool wad om  deaulful black saad biach there and | Mervin was ouvee told why she was
i wtaal! avartinent of fher own, She may | then dreve me hy jeep to thls huve jes She nuw believes Cuatro had her
mnaceammmmnme "So even have dreamed r @ romance with . prison complex, They showed mb, & colt locked up to make sure she didn’t ¢s-
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Discovery of missile
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a cold-war showdown
balwocn than Prucident
dokn F. Kennady and
thon Soviat Premier
Nikita Khrushclov, @
confrontation that hed

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the world holding

‘ Hs breath,

water Te ee

etrewn all over the tables, the flour, *
the bed, the dresser. He had one filing
cabinet that was never locked. Tt was
full of money, papers, documents
taps. — toos papers out and slinpe
them to Frank, Fidel never missed
them.

“Fratk ssid, “Get all the data yoo
enn’ and I did. tf was a regulur Mata»
Mari.” . ~ .
Vhen Marie became sick, ‘and Frank
artunged her eseape. Two Cuban offi-
cers took her out of the hotel while
Custro was away aud put hur om &
Cubana Aislines fight to New York.

About that fine, Frank also set up

the cacupea of two top Cuban ai
officers, a project that forced
leave Cuba. He nied hin base of
operations te Miami, but he bept fa
teuch with his agents on the island and
his CIA cuntacta in Havana and Wash-
inyton, .
When she recovered from hee it.
ness, Marie joned hin In Florida and
volunteered fox on inission that meant
vertain death if hac were caught.

Early in locd, Castre werk ta

eee eee ene me

a ne

7

BUND AT NEWS, JUNE LZ ‘1976

by PAUL.

The Central Intelligence ¢ Agency. senta shapely Mata Wari fo Cuba in

1960 to kill her former lover, Fidel Cas tro.

Details of this case were mncovered hs Vhe News and a Senate tritedlijrenes
Committee investigator who :

_ learned that a omystery
7, Woman had been tnvelyed
IN ah oussassination -plot
vucdinst the Cuban dictator,

It was the first of several
CTLA-sponsored attempts te oxe-
cute Castro,

The mystery woman has now
been identified by the committee
and The News as Marie Lorenz,
aa attractive German-American
bronetta who shared Castro's
Havana hotel suite for saweral
oronths in Poi, When a cecuenit-
tev investivutor confronted her
with evidence linking her to the
avesassinattonm plot, she admitted
that she had been recruited for
the attempted dit.

HNP Yura Lives ti ees

The Memo That Started It

On Pees fio lute Cab J. oe ) fkE nay dined oof the CEA.
Wiostvern Hendy ote jhevicien, Wore it peti oray

4

rp EY
Director Aten Bailes, Aecording baa Senate Commitee ae -
port. Noi
COTTA te :
agatise |

Boothe otur fete’ region Gp Cp ba nl

vee Polite American countries 4 1a
esta he recotametded that:
comshdierad sen ote the elimination af
None of ul : te Bidel, suelt aa his t :
eomnian, Che Guevara, have thas uot
the arisses. Mant interned poop He etieve 1
ance of Fidel would greadiy acceler
prevented. ! D
Dulles and ‘Pes yo PMvectar pf
approved (the rec(auimmenation. snd
a CAtipaten against ©
fi Ris da the eXelisive story

asst:
eoVedps,

ai

Exclusive Account
Then, last we she pave this
Poo reporter an exclusive account ar
a Mission oso secret that she
“El bever mentioned it te anyone for
ya yeutg.
Ms. Lorenz,,

hat

who now lives in
New York. the daughter of
the fate. German Navy Capt.
thenvich Lorenz and his Ameri.
ean wile, After World War lt,
Lorenz became skipper of the
Ener Berlin, dfe tenis

al ote ont ih bean

eriise in Petes a
Month af over
. noon

Havana harbor sind with

The eaptain amd his vivacious
teenage slaughter. Ele later per-
saaded Maric tu return to Hava-
me te work as his personal inter-
preter, When she arrived she
as installed {no Castro’s 24th.
vor sutte at the Havana Hilton,
soon realized she was a
: ritual prisoner,
i Quizzed by FRI
Frank Fiorini an American
Whe had become a Cuban Reto-
hitenary Army officer and oa
CTA agent, contacted her and
persumled her ta photograph
Castro’s secret papers. He later
helped her escape,
She lett Havana in January

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CIA Santa

(ill Castro in ‘60

Conti. Mn page 3) ,Viorint gave her twe capsules

o_o me fall of poison powder, She was

Me, ee York and | fold) te sprithes the powder in
seo vo dtespitab fee Custray eotfee,

1
!
beens it 1 oP guesa the company (CLA)
cred pert sapplied them. Prank san it was
tee hbal ia company operation.” :
Various Machine the olive-drab  unf-
wetad form that Castre had given her,
Eorke, ot) designiuting: her a Heulenant in
»oworked the Revolutionary Arniy, Ms.
wish, Lorenz flew back (o Havana on
ovpes theses niissiens / Cabana Airiines, Believing she
Dmight be searched at the airport,
iahe hid the capsules in a jar of
cold cream) in ter purse. When
she arrived in’ Havana she

and

whe se

—

wb PURO: 1: . .
“ changed inte her Fidelista  uni-

would ene [0S .
cnendous ; form and went to the Hilton,

this counties,” Cold-Cream Caper
ote the BBE of fives “The lobby was full of report.
tho St. bev a conles-) erg and other people trying to
hwo acents who | sea Cagytre, but he wasn't thera.
eer qreviads 4.) Une of lis aides recognized me
and took me up to Fidel's suite.
Entering the two-room suite,
she saw that nothing had chang-
fed in her absence. The sitting
: ‘ room was crowded with Castro's
seher se Saad, { saul, | yearded, pistol-packing — retain-

ate
hes

clip
chy

my atti
she sitd,
was willing |
Poeouhd get an aad

1

a7

ers. The bedroom was littered
Thought [1 Was a Joke with papers, cigar bulls and
Ate vad, ‘Yaar could Knock | SHAS. ;
wont cab save everybody She waited nervously In Cas-

they kept com [in a few hours later, As soon as
and io realized | he smiled and hugged her, she
. . knew he didnt suspect she had
vy deat vou kip | Visited “ie suite a few months
Lal dow't know how, | Previously and stolen his secrets.

‘ And he certainly didn’t suspect

Sth ail ofhese men areund hn, uk s
with a we ae ir it's in me to! she had come back to kil him.
t ar uN I + .

RUG Rina . Do Not Disturb
, y dentousy, ‘
ant Faien | y
aid, you

‘Tim nei
eoanhiig

“Tle asked why T left him anil
said it was becnase | missed
my mother and my home, He
started talking about Cuba and
the problems, the lack of money,
hoor | the. shortages. He talked a long
there “Wels T time. He said he waa expecting
ines ab WRT an important phene call, but he
kiling Oto) took the receiver off (the hook
and he shouted to the barbudos
' (bearded ones) in the next
ge -froom: ‘No me moleste (Don't
us food _ bother me)’ ;
To wo down “Finally he ordered food and
seat uan ' coffee sent up. When if came, he
wel Kil an de owenld change fell asleep en the bed, in) his
_ | New sake 1 «Wall, I don't | fatigues and with a cigar in his
an aa mouth. T had no confidence left,
but’ [ knew this wag the chance

yo decided on pol-

fer pub putbeotr at
deink. b> .
cote tell mae?

“They didn't tell me to do it

i a i ‘to do it.
wonet ta co it, They. said ff 7 oO ;
vent, [do be protected, but who “T went Into the bathroom and
could guarantee Pd get out?” opened the jar of cold cream. |

stuck my finger In it and the
A Method Ready whole thing came out ke yuck.
foreng said she finally|[ couldn’t find the capsules.
teoyge te Minami with They had melted.

Cleheeked inte on tourist hetel,|

Yothought he | tro’s private reem until he came:

|

re

1 thought he
wokept cen

hy dent you Kil
deat hnow how,
mn around hyn,
it's in me to

jealousy,
end Bsig
aid, you
Pin nes

aL Wile

> his food oor
1 ocWhato are youl
ioame? To go duwn

and} yal ban!

“Alex sa
history. I
wane te die

“They

“Well, I don’t
didn't tell me to do ft!
ey not to do it. They said ff
Sasent Pd he protected, but who

could guarantee Vd get out?’

A Method Ready

Teren; said she finally
te yo to - Miami with
we for a necting with Fiori-
mt, who. said he had a way to do
tpt

She osnid she spent three
weers inoa CLA “safe house” in
viii, seeing ma one bat Ffori-
and Rorke. "They kept talk-
me inte it. They said, ‘You
i do it, You're the only one
woe can doit”

Asked if she now believes she
s brainwashed, she replied:
puless so," She said they Teel
eda her patriotism and told her
she would pret thousands,
cress to retire,” {f she sue-
se aready

When she finally agreed to ac-
evil the assienmment, she said,

Aria Floors
Opera Singer

London, Jine 12 (UPI) —
Von thevannt reached for a
feeh note at the Royal Opera
Hease am London Jast night
nod fell throwueh the fleor,

He stuck there, in the per-
eo; af singer Ruggero Ral-
mondi, trapped ta his waist
and singing for dear life. Sir

Geraint: Evans and his) other
co-perfurmers, stil singing,
tagied and pulled. Eventual-

vy Raimondi climbed out, un-
“hurt but shaken with his word
bent into-a curve.

~ “They

were magnificent,”
said critic Hilton Tims, who
Was in the audience. “They

carried on without letting the

incident upset their vocal
equilibriun:. .
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tro’s private room until he'eame
ina few hours later. A& soon as
he smiled and hugeed her, she
knew he didn't suspect she had
visited the suite a few months
previously and stolen hig secrets.
And he certainly didn’t suspect

ishe had come back to kit him,

Doe Not Disturb

“He asked why T left nim and
T said it was hecause ] missed
my mother and my home. He
started talking about Cuba and
the problems. the Iack of money,
the shortaves. He talked a long
time. He said he was expecting
Pan important phene call. but he

- dewided on pof-
iowenld he easy

“Le weuld chanze y

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took the receiver off the hook
pand he shouted to the barbados
(bearded ones! in the next

roam: “No nme moateste (Don't
bother me)’ ‘ .
“Finally he ordered food and

coffee sent up. W hen it canie, he
fell asleep on the! bed, his
fatigues and with a cigar/in his
mouth. I had no vonfidence, left,
but [ knew this was the chance

]j to do it.

“Tl went Into the bathroom and
opened the jar of cold cream. 1
stuck my finger In it and the
whole thing came out Tike ynuek.
I couldn’t find the capsules.
They had meltetl. -

“Tt was like an omen.

“T couldn't just dump a’ glob
of cold cream in his coffee, so T
shut the jar and went back to
the bedroom and I watched him
sleeping. Finally To lay down on
the bed beside him.

‘T thought. ‘To hell with ft.
Let history take ils course,’

“Stupid, Stupid”

Frank and Alex met me when IT
flew to Miami ‘next morning.
They asked me what happened
and [ said the capsules melted.
Frank was very upset. He sal{d,
‘Stupid, stupid, atupid, Why did
you put them in the cold cream?’
T said, ‘Where else? It was the
only place to think of where no
ona would find them.’”

Ms. Lorenz was not asked to
jtry again.

“Would vou have killed him if
the capsules hadn't melted " the
interviewer asked. “No,” she
replied. “Probably not.”

Alex Rorke later disappeared
ona mystery flight to Nicara-
gua, Frank Fiorini, now known
as Frank Sturgis, continued to
perform odd jobs for the CIA
until his arrest in 1972 as one of
the Watergate burglars.

Informed of Ms.
count of the assassination at-
tempt, he verified her story.

Soon after her murder mission!

failed, the CIA recruited Mafia
mobsters — including John
Roselli of Las Vegas, Sam Gian-
eana of Chicago and Sante Traf-
ficante of Tampa, Fla. — to kill
Castro. But they were no more
successful than the sexy. Mata
ari.

Lorenz’ ac- |

. va dhe died dbase. big lies 1S H
. : Bb room was erawded with C Castro's | tii
_ 3 1 said, | hoarded, pistol-packing tetain-
Wards Sc te ers. The bedroom “was littered
Thought tt Was a Joke with papers, cigar butts and
i Sa wald knock | BUNS. . 5 Je
save fverybudy She waited nervously ti "As~

cytes

pene gree a


sare acc

neers
ra ier ‘ ig . .

section

” News spaper ‘Names. “4Mafia Fign rey >:

‘world: information, as “decline

thing ne that, _ My premiay fer
ing to contirm or deny the, ‘

DACRAMENTG CAR) = ~ vhe, hen lt became obvious that
probably not a8'790g * gouges’: |

Central bdellgeres (Agency “the Mavasion of 1,400 exlles

~ vehed on four ‘underworld’ “was *@ failure, the mobster accounts When you rellect on ite ae
cunessters for intgiligence used beat returned to Florida. “The Bee reported that Hous not an imple: squat Bo
in planning the" ill-fated. 1981! “Walsh identified the source a en it?  y + " Ie :
' Bay of Pigs’ invasion ‘at Cuba, Pr his. Information as a-former ‘Related Story ‘Page AS The Bee sald te cd the tout :
' the Sacramento Bee. ‘to employe of the CIA. He did — .. tubsters tivoived eith” tha”
not. identify ‘the employe in ton, ‘retired general counsel of. CIA cin the Bay of Ake are:

i : day. ‘ 1 fan
: The CIA's underworld: in.
formania, all former. Havana -
casino. besses,
$759,009 in Cuba whan . they.

“pad buried”

‘tid story, which tarried a Las
Vegas,: Nev., dateline. «

He quoted Lawrence R.
. Houston, described 6s the CIA

. fled Fidel Castro. There.ore . oidictal - feeling the: under-
they had a stake it encourag: ” a . ;

_ iil alive. . :
, At said one Russell Botadfe
no, 7, descrit248 9 sullac ~
“DES Torthenst tats Reansyl ae
(Pleas Tana Ta Al, Col 8} ra

a ae re

the CIA, said of the story:
“fT do not recollect such a:
thing, but that doesn’t mean it
didn’t happen. I won't deny it, .
but I don’é comember gny-...

A ee

ing the United States, foun ; ; ;
dertuke the invasior to over= . ; . ‘ ; . mt
throw. Casio, the. Bee cepett it ue
ed.

“The jaformation’ tney sup
plied to the CIA: “supposedly " :
pinpointed troop. and naval oo ae
vessel positions,” Bee Investi-." a
gative reporter Denny Walsb.’.
wrote in the Sunday edition.

“More “umportantly, per
haps, tha mobsters “also “1e-
ported that many of the peo- . 4
ple of Havana: were ‘unsym="
pathetic: to Castro and, would
almost: certuialy rise up” fo %
support of a counterreVolur * ;
. tlonary force’ ence it had*es-' « : ; 7 .
_ tablished a beachhead, a os : ; . oe

Waish corithiued. ™ *

In exchange for -theie: help:
the houdlumy had. deen ‘proms.
ised they would’ be allowed to--
recover their buried cache, unr":
hindered, Walaits

lig sald thal] ag
fhelr owty bast, yeh an
a nant abdurd; standing off
Cabga short when the’

Tita sataitert:

lye ea yer
cl ;

she

ta 7 . : ae ca +e Oe

HW 50955. —

“SSiasNiatah

nn e"¢Contlaued Fron Page Aly.
4 Mati. boss who was cons,
ected: Just before Lis - ‘hooknp }
By @ith tho CIA of conspiring to;
P absttct justico in lying abput «
if the 1987 Mafia summit meet-
ing at Apalac in, N.Y.
. i: Th iewepaper said the oth-
“7 or ving inférmant {s-
, also known 2,
who: was deaeribe ag,
“ge oversdar and nionaier of!
Mafia gambling Inlorests fa:
di \, preCastro" Cuba, ‘The! Bee.
“gald he is -reportetlly- living in,
. * Coral Gables; Fla.’. 4
-7' "The other two were Jamss.
7h 1 Emo dented as a for+
os Sage afia. hijackor,: labor
I rabketeer and’ garnient dis-
“I-trict strongmad, ‘and Salvar.
Sunn Saari. asa:
AC Maneextortionlst: and: gant: * %

ced Plumeri and Granelld were
iyictims sevetal.-years Ego: of!

» Santelated england whecur: ;
Sia

ae

fasta niga ‘BB de :
. deilibed by? Walsh: “front his. j
{et entified :.” former CIA

Rigel kbutleta +
‘Cabico. gambling flourished in
ee ‘thé country under: the direc:
“ston and controt of the .U.S.’
Berganizea crime ‘underworld. |
:4The Castro: revolution |
“soiited the mob ‘along with ,
Vaegatista, aod the Cuban: pre- |
ars ! spaibr's* Communist govern |
“«Ringat bas never: alowed the ;
; : teaumptlon ot , moby peliiies |
“ ‘ are

lee ; ; . ro
‘Docld: 32423630 Page 9." ~

.

ssea “made pericdic re-

i * ports to the CIA until just

“before the abortive. ‘Bay of.
. Pigs invasion. = +
“Between $45,000 .
$50,000 waa paid-by the four’.
spastera ta informants soy
Cuba for the ‘informations
“" The tauney came, at least
| in-part, from a $750,000 cache *
: “wrapped {n-oilcloth and bure |
: fed in the ground by Granolld-r
and ‘Loving just before. thelr -
_ hasty doparture from Cuba
during the turbulent. days of! a
tha Castro takeover.
“It was the rest of this
_ imoney that ‘Granello, Levine, ©
‘Bufalino and Plumeri were

_ + asiured they would be able to »-
i recover unhindered if the Cas.”

.| tro government was toppled... ,.

:4 - Thay managed to Ret word »

: to ‘hoodlutns inside” Cuba who
"know the whereabouts of the

- mdney to start buying stra-

' tedie information, Other Cu-

+ ban associates of the four ,

‘gangsters were dispatched to. »

the island from: Florida- on
+ intelligence-gathering sorties.”

:- Martier~ published. ~ reports”
|-pave said that in preparation

_¢ for the Bay of Pigs invasion, .
: CIA Director Allen Dulles re-

| lied heavily on reports which
stressed the unpopularity of
‘ the’ Castro regime and_ the
expectation, never realized, of
_ Massive rebellion at the time
" of a strike. |. Foe

~The 3 four" het “fonaet casi

orga

awa emer


!

el

so L

i
?

othe beste t

SOS Orgy,

Marie Loranz says tho wes told that maps she tock from Castro’s headquarters
photographing missile sites (above). Under pressure from U.S., Khrushcher order
fo Soviot Union (right).

* Zapata, a vast swamp that
bees [te ronvert te rire Gelds, As
geo ons he left Havana wath his usual
enteaurave, Marie received orders to ree
thin be Uhe Cuban enpital inuedately,
She Vaarded aw regular Cubana Airlines
fight, posing as an American tourist
atl ontrying her Castro unifurm and a
lualed revolver im her overnight bay.

Ste arcived in Havuna a few hours
after Casten deft town. Americans were
aul welvoine there in’ those days, and
Cuban eastens effieers seldom searched
tuur sts’ lus age. .

“There was ne (reuble at the alr.
pert.) Marie sed. "PE checked into a
sleazy Hie hotel in dewitown Havana,
changed inte my Hentenant’s uneform
and went direct to the Havana Hillen.
Iiyvocnm time, Carta had a home on
the oathirta af Havana, a Cajimag,
bat ft was more canvenient foe him to
keep hit puperant the Hitter,

"Hs bad Save 2408 and the adjein-
enter, fo had the hey te 24eRr,
fy orerogmired qe when 2 ctme
Mute -the betel PE ohad changed ame hair
stvie and nuebe my conmplevion darker
than 1 is tatursbly. Amd do ware dark
glneses ‘They (Castea’s people) add
were dark chases, even at nich

SUA Tat uf people were leitering in
the dobbs, burcardys and everything. I
Just t theeugia Passing: the
desk w. on tht Uist het hered
thoehrhe knew ine. f
trepesed i caliber Petective
Speco chiped te the imade af ng
waistband Nobedy ogrened le matice
me. [walked fe the elevatura and went
wypto the Oath blower,

Saw Her Opportunity

hadoas:

Sobudy vas aeoond When Fidet
left, chey all left weta lows hia hudy-
Koarda, his udseers, whatever, When Tf
hint laved there, [owas either all alone
att oversthiag os dead quiet or sdse
Fidel was there and there was a lot of
Bulge wil eyyar the,

“Loumlocked dour ta Suite 2408,

erst fiside aed stowble facked the door
Lebind me § felt pretty confident hee
reuse toiaew Febd wie wt Chenega de
Vupatas Whee & fe tha: suate, no one
waste gain Tl were the ordege,

“Aa uiual, the sue was littered

with papers and toe Cling calaaet was
opeo. kL coulda't crab everything, fb teok
as much as E could aad sludfed) papers
aid maps inte my uniform packets and
cfd oO T gs GUI.
gerd Tata

Uer hetel,

tH, went

a .

changed into a dress atid enught the
Meat flight to Miami.

“Frank met me at the airport and r

wave him all the papert. F never knew
exactly what information they contain

ed. fo was told the stuff was woud, t+

was fantastic, ‘the United States goy-
ernment fy very happy.’ *

Among the papers were topograph:
deal rnps of Cuba oa which several
Sections of undeveluped land, mide.
away from any population center, had
heen nuked with batdedrawa circles,
The maps also had handwritten nata-
Gongs that Marie conkda’l read -heeanse
“they weee in ‘a fomiga language ~-
Creek, think.” .

Her Find Was Valuable

‘Tieo years later, anather
Kroce axent told hor the mings
he original yrowindwork plans
Soviet missiles The circled
were the specs
Iasea were lilt in setting otf
the historic showdown Between Presi
dent Kennedy and Premier Khrashehey,

From informations Aupipelicd
areuta juside Cuba amd Cubate refugers,
and from a phatox snapped fone
Ul epy planes, the CEA war able te
Pinpoint alt the ile bases on the
iedond. Hut Marie betievea her sede nie.
sion to Castru's lau pave the CA ite
first inkling of what the Wigeans were
Plotting, She alsa’ believes Cntr nace
pected sho was the hurgha whe swine
fis secrets, (The CEA hus declinea ta
comment on Murie's involventent.)

Th Mare §960, soon after she

intelli.
wore
for

had

completed this dangerous AMIE,
Marcie received wa owvstesious (ede ram
from Havana, Delivered to her tioth
ers apactinert at GER OW. kuh Sto at
sail OAL use? (Cnctrets private
mumber) LATE OAT NIGHT LCs
VERY EMPOR TANT!

Heo wae nigned OO Yanen meaning
Capt Sesue Yanez Pellets one uf
Castro's cliiest aides, Marie's frst fur
fulse was to ignore the pease, but
Curie y overemiae eb timoa seaae.
Withont mentioning the telesract to
cher brother, she deft the apurtnical

avenol wnidaight to phi a vallvt call
le tfavana from a plone de ohoon tie
corner,

As she stopped inte the small vents
fale between the outer and finer Cent
doors te the apartment whotwie, tw
xrabhed her. One of them was Viet

Pag@rd Gad pur Maio secu

“TRY were woinw fa tebe se be

went

were Factor in locating and
ed missiles removed and shipped back

Cuba. Vanes said a phare was wating.
at ddtewold Airperi. They dat ae an tbe
face and tried to drag me ont te a car,

A person wha hved on the basideng

opeted the doer sant ew nie serena
and fighling. ‘This pera fan dewn
toward Riverside livive. ‘Phe interruy
tion distracted the Cubses eneagh se

that Eo broke loose and can 1 heard ane
of them yell ‘Shoot! Showt!’ but ches
Muly't) boss vp fe Hiowdaas aid o. |
aeop there

“The Cu
all blaarty,

ane fueh off

My faee wae
Phornh ¢ :

aad for Uy

took ne tu the i

ae AVUT WE Oe eh carte ot

trivae ated fear. 1 teld eter +

wan pod Po opaye them bos tute oe
West Side hatel warn castia pe
Stayed when hos were fa 8 Y
She detectives wens there found
Vouk he thee eoakla’t sto heat

fen bad duptons immunity.
He dak a lplontatiec jurssport sayin be
sue wil the prea painter's

Hebd Veron

vee TO Ub

ivburned fo
at Marte fastre dtad
New Ysrk cope cnuldit ste.
Vets pd eta,

Veded

pent

Discussed Killing Castro

Nehiub GD she ned a ner
elige dad
Kellan Coste, Micree
Wee all duds We wate
Tare dering one of his
wee gous ta ly aser
Tighten tep of hit,

“We haat the bub, the plane, bows
keene to gabon Mat ued ean We
were adi set) but at wie valle ott.

Aseria of

Wisin’. yw eee bisects ad

tephiedds "Sure,
omg te

apreches,
and

beao
We

drop out

Somebads topped oot. Phats at! |
how.”

Miie nuit Oyu Alaesican agente
wenk obo Unb te man etabe Cheri
shortly hefere the ab Pigs inva

sien

“Pout them ats dite white howe
Weopenies® a due Conan refers oun
Moana F thamk at sue tan Blaster S$:

We wookt tesce stay at oope place ten
Tern. We'd a beeusis nad mene een
Seay, UE SHS Al ote af cur meetings

vot thes” ek pe about

vba {heavy
1 ty oe wend halting bien,

Yhe twee Aimecieaes wint iin bit
hooey didn’t pet eat They hears,
sad fhe Cidra soldiers, bo oheard

voemat ety, vere bee de hada

&,
*
a 3a)

4 ae

Due

Matin sauk a ni Bleee Teak
Lops to Cubadebyeriig: yuan aid spe
gies ote gettte apecestalbae Sipe
worked woth peed Now Hecker
deeth oot agen nitaat ead cos
ef the ad they were re
Heated oar inne atl

“Peres fas conden the tae
planed, oppor dean an
freien, Vea jaet say genre deme ott
For the Grae 8 ve weomatey badd t
Handle the dere ced af ou Wao were >
sve mw dst wo tee dd”

‘Eduardy’ Supplied Cash

When sah waa ueelob oat sune
fro on CEN dean she anew only as
a He wonld geet Friink aint

Sy time fo tine at oa he

fn Mines

“Retgarde was fe asge
Mario said UWies we went te Wick ayy
{ho tones, Foased om the ca. daw
hime when be opened ta doug of thie
Igtle white beuse wea

Y

wun thine

a deter, whe cending akeut tha

Wartergat) dread uy Mose Won hewse
Paper pheta ot forner CEA man BL
Howard Plant aied imuiclitely recupe
fused htt as theo Wee TB ebaserete ™
She onlor ree pied aopecture of Stare
wis, When she dad hun as baat *

Peoria,

Phere oi wate ote the ve dare lne
eet oan Det ritie copa Coniment.
Pew hewtbaaarters oat ph. W Niepite
complies on hime EL des of the
five Stunaiq: Bernard Karker. Magaeie
Roland Moatanes deers OW,
McCool thet fart]
Maven reelection ecanpunth conti tee
wete fates CEA enipleses.

and

Srey ooh

ee
feet atin pueeatteny. Ten tie Wise
of Bae rt owas Hant, tine
Miten waite, Mastesminh oof bbe
Watergate huawdury. Ame he a ferred
te Stargis, Barker aad Martiaeg fn

fourth Ceatimuny as Usain af old

my

CLA contact”
SIMU Feburtes
toon hy,

fae Wore tainaedon Ghee
vets afber drew
aboceerrt staff
Cou. ton
ret di tet hea
ete sand he
epeaaiions tang.
Sa ee oe |

Meath

\otutaties ie

Imenyy bet other
usked abut Ob:
fron dermesdic

itihse
huateders

Clamorew: Frank Bisse Stargee,

4
iH

HY 409545

.

i,

by PAUL miesuit ae oe

Third of a teries . H j
SThe Central bitelligence Agen.
on enee divestipited Fiddi Castro,
hollering “Margot Fouteyft aut ac.
tors John Wayny and Kerol blyna

in connection avith a bigirre inva-

sion of Panaanney

1 The colorful ondt of this gomic- opera
conspire yo inichidad lieeefl: American

sWentureas, bee ud whoo wire working 9,

for the CAL Wilkiem Mogeah and Alex
Hurke, beth focmbe LES) Army pira-
fraapers, were an ‘oppusite sfdes of (phe
Pry plot And Frank Sturgis, a Mere
igs Marine Kander} was in the middie t
Ktarpé ~obeen Fasgk Fiorini, ws
run hunter ward troap-traraer (for ( {fre re
‘Ten he heeame security and prteltig:
chief of Ue Cuban Air Force meany pele
avdyings ax aseeret agent of Ue CLA, ar
Morvan was a fie toe fanispedta
intprestesd it anesey Laon heties

iaidive of Totedo, Uhio, i nf te

Caha in (958 and became seepnd in-dpi-
rand af Gan independent aehtl arn

ibd Escumbray Mountains. [This son
Cummunist feree helped ¢ oe 4 guerril-

taq overthrow the Hatista dictatorship
atgl Casha made Murcan « idajor, high-
el rank fo the revolutionary drys

S'Phe upset wiekory aver Hatislu, atl
tha vt that want with it, encouraged

Morgan fo consider eatvading the revelu-
tion to arher Latin Inuds. A few weeks
alter t . tcover in |

Morpan galled af Capt. Frank. Fioriin's
vifiee oa Cuban dtr Force headquarters.

Refused second spot .

Valuer Maryan spoke te me confidh a
tially? Storyas toke |
he was preparang an invasien ‘ot Paracas
aud the Canad Zone. He wanted ine to be
seeondaig command of the eqpeditioa, f
fald hint 1 waa interested, but not in a
Jeadership position.

TT sand, BUN: you'se got ta be erazy.'

The Amerian goyecament's got amide
tary free there, You're walling te gs
APAINAL Voor own ecaunisy 7° dhe amid,
"Well, the GUS. never i paythidg for
aM ” 7

Vhe Aunerican wnidiuary strength in the
Casal dee at that time an TNS) Lanaded
abet Lordi naen. eoitpared to 5000 in
Wookl Wael i Margan faguped
pree atach daa few hundred Cu
aoetty hy Panamanian detlists plague
pets aul a Cher disorders, would he suf-
fre

the vital canal

sur

“The vensparatera planned to over.
throw the Pansinanman goverinent and
yrab othe Canal fer propaganda and
ertortien ers” SOs sand.

“They were gods te wend a ship,
Toasted will oxplosivep, thretyh the canal
lovks. They were goune ta blow up and
sink Lies step sanew Bere uear the lacks,
ao that the gates t fay
deri arid
pout ian
OMufyne agerat We wuukl tie ayy the
al TOP nd lease (wer months. He wee ail
set to ge He tuel the ten, seuss, ahipe,
planes. everything. -

hdirer trans

cut

Showed planes, named names

“Doce tached tie Apberiean) kay
in Havana ard wetetied the (Cf
Mecbwrge Pte Crd Nichols (ireacon
Nichels, eer aQache at the enemas pte
the gis base ceed showed fam the esmneag
Abaya? planes Uist were le be used for
the tavaoha and Preaued aid the people
wher were seta the com garg

“hoes ines 6
Margot Fonteyn, stay

werteddy jan faded
wetar oof fopden’
Hoke Hallet and date venender of th:
Ordo of tne Mitt Punpae (he equiva
font of bavhahoods, gid her rich. wee de
erties bie sderenl, ieakrra Atsas, fore
Taeananan aindae mdor te Britane oa!
gone ( Ga fortaee pretdeat of Pasansc,
Piagaie Matgee and her feeb’ were
ja Cuba wt th a Kulen Mire
feet dh che :
bhavenient allege
Morvan at ify
miliary comme tiader.
Accondnag fa

sferced with
oe ohe was

: telligetoe peports, the
iVRMIOP was te take place while Casta
was seubing the Unidat States atel Cuna
da XN speoeherd fusee of Conan nnd
Panomatiias would dando the Carb
bean coast of Puansiga A seromnd force uf
Poroinancns weetd strike inland fran
Ue Paeifie ceast, Phen the aan ivan
Avay wend satus Crom Cuba,

Police ant National Gitte) poste were

to die waitin het Bebe) dupuete faa a
hockd: 30423650 on Bag

a

‘y

7 oly Magee [bila !
hig Guintla Puls CROSS RONEG, uf

etre memes re

ot

Nett hie mate
« ln Panama, part of the invasion tenn quickly yeied.

Prota by Ruel Caparres

he bnew nothing about the Unaais plot.
ol Flyni abe was asked about bis
n fete tdshigy with
together in Cubs,

Canal Zone and
ned City t te keep Panamanian me
LEER. Lregys aceupied. :
But Frank's reports ta the CLA "
vides! sufficient mbvance 3:
Custre deft Cuba en April 14, Ven
Arias and his wife Mow to Mavamu pind
et imubar Taueh
a day, saying Oey were joing tiph-
we fomch loosing ined accor? ie"

where Flyin was

no swashbuckler said
Aviat wanted to hirg
an-geing Zaca, fore trip
ing what he bat in tind,

not have attenipted the VP:
Cathe of erma

ied ety i a, Pidel insisted: “Thad nothing to de with

wulesatie itles, vevalvers, tuachir
los ind amietinitien bt wok
Hinah beet trepped §

ashore on a Sut Hlas badian reses
the CLA had # man at Cv
Alexander Rocke dr.
ist, photrarrapher wud intelligence agent.

Double doublecross

Seu ofa New YouR adie,

Lent Ga the 5 trooper aed intelbs en

Texme axhere on
und uci the, urs Jon
Dine Marget.

daughter af Stal Clab owner
panuie oa Che
i her hashand then Vesunnned ther e ruts
after receiving. aeCtA
wu ship tad sailed
rom the Cuba: pect of Bitahane tyart
" vf Mon scan? ‘

Aaecicun busines.
iavelved wath Sturgis,
Margan nad Karke i cacuiny plots,
doubles basa
York and his gat

mano Cota,

whe vew bves ind New
tini-hed writing wt
Million Pyetlais,
“Patarted
“omscnneint Cwretras dn (Matt bee
eda clase frien! ef wut

“orrest. He head
ia, returned fo
and went into hid-
ing se hie Family's ranch,

Beloee dawn tect dias, the Nota abige-
Inte tha Taina Canal with ouky the

“the news on ih

bois capture or ab least subotages *

there was anything: he could de te get

the heme of hier sistersia- lew,
A few hours hater,
Miter MH. hours An juit,
hated tack to
Vets had taken ref.
sevitvase Enibaway ip Ponania
allowed te leave the

freon whe was very close t

thing: but sone

the ren tetera “TE found wut that Cadiea was gong: to

‘Tramihe (Penis

Me ware Later Uietator Halae! Prupilled disut the sya

a oweoda tak

hiqe nftbe would bo atop. found thé arms

Morpan's fetp
“Totalb Teajitle

un oS cat

Ameceoain friend ai ve nat bene

Peary bach fie (bar paecite
‘hea vent come
hayes Castie bs

miheu dele
cue Ga pet wl start.
ab Maegan Ro Geen

is nnd Tua.
A Wenn ape,

Spearhead blunted

Those of the mea draw in ihe svat

dent areal pat up the
Nelson sead he
plies $100,000
renueninge $00,000

dnegehaes, sen

Sto be pad when

were quickly captused hy Puamie’s Nae

eM bAN ports of OF

indy find bub what was app. u

Ji we wy me inane at the Decoyed by Raul's wile

ihsaston pad cadeged the Ehree

Hes Dak te Cada Reaba wid Meo ye

TR tatebeak e

wie witesied, The worran aber Chey ane

Tree) Cadre’ wale,

Maran had told F

EC
Heat athe Hittes satd proce Margai'a 1m
Mine «the: ptt

which Paniia-

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tuded te go along wilh PF

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Teeter ee ren Near 1
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Ment pleted ef Homesnuin safle ts

soplaineab Gat te and Ane

SUGRUYS OF
WIE GUA

it was surrounded by 100 Cuban tr
Jed by Fitch Castro hinisel fl

The Dowinienns were yncd
TV vame@sasion theie wey te oe
denegactd Trupho end praised Morgatt
as a hete, Bess than tea sears hater,
Moran was executed by oe Caetro faring
quad for nomics tess profitable ge
Vad devised the TOU os nal
hewn, Nerther Meran’s Cab wife tor
his Minerican Gonily ever cas a cet of
aL. Nor alnd Castro,

As ston ae the Trugite macnn col
fapsed, Alex Hotke wae cedeased Croan
fall and weperted frame Cuba, Raat

before
Castre

Cuirned many tenes bev gar aid or
these ehandestiar tri he uoesl a bees
chyane Hecehsiaft plane. a Ho. bamnber
ant ya 38 foot speedboat, the V ane,

SOurgis accataparied Rib on many tay:
Lerious missions, -

Assastins fuiled

On one aveasion, Rerke repartediy
Janded an exeeution squmd Ghat teeed but
faded to hal Castro, ty un tt) the
Veolyna db owas detained aa che Eiahiancs
when a stapped be cefacl om x ii he
tween the US nad Coba. Teatish ocedte
Kenee agents questioned Karke vant ihe
17 Coben raiders whe wire wih haw,
Ttorke Cobb them the CPA ded fieneed
inany drips ef the Vielynn Hib and “the
United States yssrnment, threayh the’
Central Dntellgsenes  Vyeaes. liad ade
vance knowledye ef these trips” .

Formre CUA agente teld “bhe News
this slateuent wae crus.

tim Apes th, awe othe sal Ubece
other OFA eontraet rent Hew ower
Havana in the Beecher and (ried tp
homb twe gal refers, The booth miss.
ed Cher Gergets and caused hUthe oben
axe.

Five months iatec, Horke went sant hie

Tast mission The 7 Pocedeatiner
atul bis pas tner, Geaffeey Sadhian, 28. af
Waterbury, Conn, took arf Cran Ft.
Kauderdale, Plaga a rented fwie engine
paffoan Sept Si, Teck Pea Cue
rersepatitesd thera,
Heake ead Salivan fled a fight plan
wothes wera leannd fee Qaesce
eua, wieee they pheaaed Ge Geet ae «ar
fevncht se made tee fuel
c= at Cozanel island off Metis
atan Petinsute and of Belooe. UWeetiab
Honduras, When they deft Media, the
plane shsapueared

Vinat on 2 SEs reeereed s report
that the plane was averd ein Ne aragas,
Frank immediatedy cailed the command:
rtf vat intelleence in Masai An age.

eoseach was lanoched by the Navy,
Coast Gama aod Ace Feree A private
seacel party wns orgamaed beter by
Kent he’ Miwa lawyer ated persmnal
ve Ruben dag ne eof the
Sineraiis or them plhoae wes
ever found,

Forced onto boat

Sete tiveabinters hadiee The plane
Soaabetiaed dy Caste nageate, Brsnk
leer ties another thoors .
“When thee stepped ta sefuet at Stra.
few Fuchboanac dete Vie peta te oan
Aiteniean cotninercha puiet, Bterd Hark,
teh Nae Tee Mey seed thes were
etude feor Lote oath teapladl of the
Kepobte of Homtanal The tes af? on
the lpectiog ot : alpal put ines
Fever jot Ue

reeewed
ae
Names mes saswwarein, the
beep ef Retee tr.
foremd be be. we Caphcces fi tere mend
thet dad polled tate shee gr Herharas
tyo weebs aarti with Lrvetateles
Vike fethary deat beth remo deate ts ter
“the tu Leriays ae °
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Sallvat. Uhes  aeser nenened toads
ERNEST ators ane ta bout Dae
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By PAUL MESKIL

“E was a spy,” Frank Sturgis
admits, .

“T waa involved in assassina-
tion plots and conspiragies to over.
throw several foreign —yovern-
ments, ineluding Cuba, Panama,
Guatemala, the Duminiean Repub-
Hie and Haiti.

“1 smuggied arms and men into Cuba.
o~ for Castro and against Castro. 1 broke
into the intclligence file; of the Cuban
Army and Air Force. J stole and phate.
graphed hundreds of seeret documents,

“That's what spies do.

“1 also broke into foreign consulates
and business offices in Cuba, far the pur-
pose of obtaining information, and inte
a -import-export office in Caracas,
Menecucla, that was a front for the
iet Seeret Service).” ‘

Slorpis 8 a hized operative of the
Central Intelligence Agency for at least
a decale, Sleybe he still is, though his
cover was blown forever by the notoriety
he recrived as a Watergate burglar. He
constructed and controlled an e$piunage
network in Cuba that is still functioning
despite frantic efforts by Castro security
forevs and the KGH ty destroy at,

podtae se ses080 dU Hee AML BDurap a hich is Ceranmay, he

iin c Mf. ans TA 7 arnt 7
Cor havang Uriels

Second of @ series

the Watergate drama, Sturgis is ar
hfe James Bond whose explute
those of any fictional say. Interviewed at
the office of his Miami lawyer, Eilis
Rubin, and at ‘other places in w York
and Florida, he candidly revealed niany
details uf his culurful career ss a wat
hero, seerets-atealer, CUR Pruner, guer-
milla fyghter und professional plotter,

Changed the subject

Asked if he had alse Seen an assat
tir, he politely ‘changed the sabyees,
Sune things he will aot talk about,

A stocky, iron-jawed man who Tooks
mach Younger than his £0 years, he was
horn Fr Angelo Fierini in fol,
Va. He joined the U. farine Corps at
th. start of Worl War il vad f. ‘a
throuzh the Pacifte with the famed First
Raider Battalion. After the war. he ROTA.
ed in the Air Force, Army and Navy
Reserve,

He had the perfect training fara se.
vret agent, The Marine Corps t
judo, haife-fighting and Junle
techniques, The Air Furee tang -
fla plane and the Navy Resers
hint tu nandie small, fast ships

The Atay completed thes ¢

vival

-

ar face
hunt pe
turned

vr

Tf

“yf
oli

SLSRGTS OF
TWe GIA

sicned tu a security unit that handled
top-secret reports frome Allted intelli.
Kence agents all ever Europe. This was
his introduction to the dark wurld of
espionage and intrigue,

In Berlin during the chilliest Part of
the cold war, he mct his first real spy.

ee

/
bas aT bo, re Ged (CO? ifhi

She was a Leautiful actress who also was:

an arent. of Haganah, the secret army
formed to defend the new stale of Israel,
Whea he returned to civilian life,
Frank became s Haganah courier — pers
haps the only Roman Cathulic in this
group. In the 1954s, he went ty Miami to
visit an uncle had married a Coban
exile, Mer #, 7 Bas cloce to Cartss
Prio, the Cuban president whe was oust.
ed ia 1952 by a miliary coup led hy
Fulgencio Batista, Frank met Prio 1
other wealthy Cubans whose Miami man.
stuns were hotheds of anti-Natista in.
trigue.g Same of them supphed financial
suppert for a Nery your revel,. Fidel
Uastro, who was then liv in Mexico.
Ind Prig asked Frank ty “yo bo
Cuba soins) Castro's army and dor me
amow what he's daing,”” Frank sccepte £

(Coanticued on mire 143

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Frank Sturgis in Cuba:

(Continued from page 3) ‘
the assignment, He flew to Havana ood
Mith the help of a Cuban priest, he
quickly incated Castro's camp in ‘the
Sivcra Maestra Mountaing nud volun
teered his seevices, I.

“Fidel remenibered me," he sald, “We
could undecaland exeh other. [apuke Ital.

ten, which ds sinsiar to Spanish, and he
spoke aeme English. { offered to help
train his troopa, but he seid, Frank, what
To need fs rete

So Frank beedme a gun runner, With
tueney eapphed hy the Castro under.
grovad in Blorich, he purchased thon-
aand of tifles wad viher weapons frum
Iniqruational Aainaroent Coop. Clater-
ari\cop of ‘Alexsbutel , Va, the world’s
largest desler inbneptos arma. He thea
aetcup an eliburute laai-sra-air amiueg-

aling network fe get tbe guns and
ama@unition inte Cuba, *
He Became Triple Agent

After several months at a duuble
exeat, workiig for Poe at Castra,

Prank became a@ ftiple agent. This time,
he was coccuited for ihe vane of intelli-
Kepee ty a tayoe r acuut, Park FL
Wotan, the State fh timgnat official
thet in chines uf the (ES. Consulate in
Sentiaige de Cuba,

“Went a

Grande Tiotel in

Santiuges, Wontiin kinew
ano Lowas and ue doing. He
approached ave ene introduced
ma We feat seve gal merngsa aad

he atin. dong petriate te wml so forth,
Tongresd ta wers with bane, .
“Taker, when fhe revohution waa weft
Dorecraced eahes cote y ota Wal
Tara tell nee vetlel inthe Ameri.
CHA Puntassy t "TL new contacts,
CRA

Frank saut, wee agent, une of
Wine woes the endlee og tility uke
tacne

Castro taneediately placed iby post
Crustal ai fieers an fuaand oof the
Calan uatibuy services, Mager Pedra
Prag Lane, «elie Criend of Frash’s, bee
fae comemdeg ia chief of the Ale

Foret aml Wet heether, Marcos Hag
Lane, Deentae incpector generab ef that
service :

Frank helped the bias Dane Leathers

Pecr yar the Ave §
hie Useir seermaty and on Higenee chief,
He alse became the officer in charye af
inspection amd s0petvising pad] Cuban
kambling casinos, which wera uwned wud
Operated by Ameriona mohslers,

Fraqk said his ChA- advisers “rakes

nid i : shed
Cc Hoekds a Meee, Bate

rear they nade

stole and photographed hundreds of secret Hocuments.”
1 1

le ;

’
oo

Nor HT EY

A bit player in the Watergate drama,
; Sturgis was a real-life James Bond when
he did his big jobs for the CIA

: ———
erm

Sturgis and his CLA contacts devised twa
alternate plota, One was to execute Cage
tro in the second floor cunferenca roam

preshlentiat palace, in with Fidel. [res
eruited everyeur | couhl, Aaericans and
Cubana, to be undercover neegla”

faa Gorman Gonzales, a Miami bust
fesunan whe took part in clank-and-dage
ee Operations asainst both Hatista amt
taste has known aud worked with
Sturgis for many years, He saya Sturgis
fwas a CLA employee from 1959 to 1068.
The CEA asked film to participate in
Sstaasination pluts in- Cube and elae-
Where. Sturgis introduced top Cuban
ilitary and political leaders to Aiieri-
fan agents at the US, Enibassy int ava.
fa. Durie: hese visita, nee Spieacy to
aasans}nate Castro and other Cubud load: to ko &
ers developed, . Cong

WO nifempts ayainst Castre'e life

athes officers would not arrive at exactly
the sume time, it might be mors prach.
eal to wuit until they were all ansembled
around (he conference table. .

“The whole iden was to hill ail af
(hen at once, Unfortunetely, if some of
Ura anli-Conumunist officers were fn
there at Uh same time, (hey would have
The hives af sume of the antl.
st commuters would have te be

were nade in the cathy part of TNs ere :
Hotty failed. The ansa se Ghent wailed The third achéme Invelyed planting a
for a green tht: foam Padak Fyorini bomb in Castro's affine. “tla averse te

Starcis.

Ao tird attempt was made ia
is :

the prime ministers uffice,' Stu
saad. “Eketew Fidelis private secretar
June Orta. 1 recruited hin te week we
the Kaubassy. 2 plarcud page ta Folvia
witiee with a dniefease full of explo
sives Which @ would deave there, When
Bidet entered the affiee, 4 angid would
be given atl the bomb would be aet off
by aa eleetromi device seruag the street,”
“The plotters watted severul manths

ik reporter asked Stuspic when the
egeucy first began Honking about assaa
ltiating Canto

The fist discussion of asaaastaation
with my (CEA) contacts wae re Pete
ery WBE he repled. “b wus an king re.
porta on ad the cummniunist wetivaly iss
the mulitury, Po sacgeted that thi would

be a good: Cae to assmasiniete Malek bE pfer the green dike from Washington,
sald Eowould organize it and follow it Pbut it never caine ey couldnt make
through, 4 Up there aninda,” Brogk sol oof the une

“Cowell avenue an hnportant cons Pseen, nla deers aniaacts. They

coabba'y decubs what Ge da.”

Asked for Green Light

Bat, according: to fasaner diteflyesiogs
needa the CRA later approved: nad
hankrolled ater plots to wage Gut Cas
tro, Ainertcan aby citurers, Csaba eat 4,
Misfit dens and bast danhing Cuban off
cinls plajyedk prosunent parte an theag
CUnS pI racies,

fn June, 169, Custeo fired 85 fap Air
Force wfficoun suspeeted of disdte rly,
including the Dime Lang brothera. Pedro

ferenve at Cainpo Vabertad CCwmp Liber
ty, the eonbined arnyy wer force by, anid
headquarters: formerly Lian ng Cathy
Columbiy, AW the top commnnilets
Would come fo Uke bane inthetr jeoge uid
CHER Ts going fs station gunners dn
the routs, atk up cee line. Lael
have wiped oat adel, tee hivethaee 1 i
audadl the top ¢peu vommanety mle oy
comuneiers in ce secunds 7

“tousked my contact in the in.
AY le yet a green tyht Cofficml age
alton this, Whether thie wend ha

come fram, the’ top level we Washan Dey Vaor Hem reapned fran the Ate
ey tpwer fevel, Eelom's haw 7%! do Rupee dnd: deomunee| Castte eon
Wile Wey wate fae rt oe oo soot

at Alc Force headquarters. As he nad the:

ancrificed in order Go get Castro and his

Almeida, ordered Vedeo's arrest and the
Diag hank brothers went cod: rground,
“At Gils point, Frank was pulled out
of Cuba, “I left Havana oa June 30 and
came to Minmt to arrange the escapes of |

the Hina Lang brothers and whete famt-
fies, Pedro and hls wife got out by sall-
boul, Marcos was picked up by » plane.*

‘The brothers Ned to Florida, fold all
they knew about the Castro tegime and
went to work foe Lhe CUA,

A few weeks after Frank’a abrupt
departure frum dlavane, he recelyed
sord that Casteo was avuding ao assas.
aati team after hin, Brach's fuform-
ant supplied full descriptions of the
three assagsins, who were Mexican
romanunists: The FIL posted @ raund>
Che-cloek guard on Prwuh's Miami home
aud federal agents fulluwed han where
exer he went. .

Tailed to Florida

Customs and tmidgration officers
werg alerted. Tha Mexican gunmen were
spotted when they crossed. the border
and were taled to Plormda, where they
were arcestesl, Thea ear was coufisented
and they were booted back bo Sfeaica,

Gi Get 25, TO, an Aoerican H- 3
Lomber swooped ever evace ward abrep.
fed Chouratids of ented ater leafle
Uneteo eulted thie “bombing” raid a
Culo Peart Mater,

Bedew than bs
Stari told tty

wae the pilot,”
NG TL wae the rue
beet. Mucor Dee tana mead another
Pulwgs were with us Cuba Ale Farea
fichiers came alter ua tut they natased
Wor wted otic cher phone planes
ehewan Vie hag ptt nd tie Navy slutton
vad tha Cabin fovteees aqnetieal up: but
Veatigtie af Che ane eas suet that they
were fing from the, heights tate thar
et AT feat ln penpla wete betel and
Wwougatdead

own

Vhe deaflet declordnent wee the
First af any CEY cqanaared He ets
Storgecimehe tn Cute hy Wed sea]

at wif apreeticss rate
both geen Taght ceed
a dicht Cwith and with.
eu OF Gem! approvall, Nad | anely mane
OU boat issn

TE tid fora beats
by the Garis Une
Comat thoietb catter, SA feet hong, woth
AWG OE horsepenn eukihea, Tt hae ae
HiniinUM Aperd of SO Kats Another
hont, the Cusa, was anboat (he ATP ARLE,
[alse had Gwe St foot fherglats boats
with radwe wad oties aapheationted equip.
tent “Phey veut vate, 40 people and da
Miah an hee .

They were fininced
wens converted

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Fifth of a secies

On March 17, 1960, President
Eisenhower authorized the CIA to
form a guerrilla urmy of Cuban

> refugees and invade Cuba, Shortly
thereafter, the CIA dispatched
arent. Frank Sturgis to Guatemala

» to confer with President Miguel
Ydigoras about setting up training
bases in that country. ~

This “secret” mission was quickly

dIscovered and reported by the Guate-
malan news mueddia.
+ “I had planned to hreak Into the
Cuban Embassy while | was in
Guetemala City,” Sturgis told this re-
porter recently, “but the president sug-
gested I leave the country becouse of
all the publicity. The newspapers and
TV reported Twas a CIA ayent and
was trying to obtain bases for the
Cuben invasion.” .

Over the next year, the CLA trained
Cuban recruits in Guatemala, Panuma,
Puerto Rico sed the United States.
Sturgis, @ marine conthat veteran of
World War Il, trained about 50 Cubans
in the Florida Everglades.

‘Sturgis wan part of the awency’s
super-secret: Operation 40, an infiltra-

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ilissicn to Cobo: Tole of tbe

OG
that was to go Sito C hefure the
Bay cf Pigs assauh. .

Seme former CLA
Operation 46 aa an
sylad."* Sturgis won't go th far.

“It was a top CIA project,” he 3.
“Most of the men in it were Cu
who kad been trained hy othe U
Ariny., Tam nob saying that Operation
40 had an assassination squad. There
are reports thet there was one, but Pr
nat saying so.

To laliltrate

“Tha prime purpore was infiltration,
not assassination. They {group mem.
bers) were to infi

agente ch corihe
TENG ASMA tioh

leaders and undergroand peuple,
And they could ki] they kad to, if
it was really necessa y.

Chief of Operation 40 was Jose Joa.
quin Sanjenis. 9 Pormer Castro aide who

defected and ecame a CHA agent. Two:
of his cousins also worked fur the agen. |

ry.

@ yroup of Cuban mil y offers
plotting ‘o overthrow ¢. To. The de
er of this plot was Major Hum.
Sort Marin, @ former Havana
who drafted the Castro
which made Neing  syuad
legal. Sori Marin had heen adiut.
gervral of Castro's army. presiding
judg gt the 1209 “war crimes trial

fawye
Code

penal
frecy

te Cubsaland cons:
Mick ariti-Castro miitary leaders, paliti-’
cal

Farly im 1961, the CLA learned that.

Tye ¢ ,
‘Wile CIA

that sent hundreds of Batista loyal.
tu the firing squads, and Castro's first
minister uf cyticulture. But by 1901 he
had turned aguinst the Cuatro fegime,
Nis partners in the anti-Castro cone
tpiracy included other Cuban arms,
navy and ale ferce commanders, the
chief of Castro's secret bohee, the depu.
ty finance minister and the head of the
Coban Sugar Institute. They planned a
itary uprising during whieh Castes
ard hig Communist advisers weuld be

As soon as the CIA learned what
they were up to, Operation 40 wert
actin, Agents slipped into Cabs, cone
taeted the conspirators ard asked *hein
me the military revel
sith the Bay of Pigs invasior.

A month before the
revolGinvasion was ta
patral was sent to the Mi
of Havana to arrest a wor
been overheard eutnp! ir
shortages. As the mobta ve
to her house, she rag out the

ta eel:

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Pot fo the nearby home}of x ibe,
h

phgincer and his wif i
} The mbtiamen charegpt alted vl

tentered, the encunver's hodse and slurat
ante a roam where ten qaders Qf the
* pnilit eady cunspitacy were geated drounds
“'w tabie Hittered with Havang street mapa
ipinpeinting the lecations éf key fistal-
qlatios i that were to he seisgd.

i Tht militiamen were qutranked and.
joutnuabered. They hesitaled, not sur
what fo do. Then informed sources said
‘Sort ptann pyfled bis pistol A shore
burst § frum he Zaech-miade submaching
gun wounded bir in the leg and per
cauadetl Kine stl his co-conspirators ta
“surreqder They were hauled off to La
Cabana Fortress far questioning.

Around this tine, in March 1961,
noisy puts waa held in ge email white
bungalow in Miami's Cuban section. Th
bongaiow was a CLA “safe house” any
the party was a sendolf celebration fur
equad—five Cubans

an Operation 40

and an American—that was sbout tu
invade Cuba. ¢ 3
Contact underground “

Vie suntad’2 inission was to contact
stro underyround and creat
aon the north coast, to mak
Castra think a guerrilla force was Jande

lg there. The diversionary action wal
te hepa -hartly before the real favasiong
On the South ¢oitst.

Most uf the people at the Mil
jortty were Coban aefugees, Ameng the
Amarwens thers were Frank Nelson s
former Havatia  busieessman and”
an Cartbhean conspirator, and CIA
tonsk Sturgis and Alex

tors

inte conversitinn with
MeNair, lone American
ther Cubs bound seed,
Asked why he going mn sucha
damprerens miss MeoNate  vegstiod:
“Heenan eo Crxstee ed ar: Mean sol.
seer Hdd Morgan t
Morgan, a frrbaer U Army pera
tronper who alta.Bed the rank of mifer

tell
Angin

of

Neda

yong
heunber

i eastra’a retin macexerdted div ay
Cacge Gru squgbon March tH, 1MGt)
Mh genple were oat the

tater dtodd orecenthy

‘Aren't yeu nftaid of na
ath these Pew an
car omission™ He said they were
ead ore iataes af the Cubans

Mo Nair

wo peuple

were vot woth hem. Ele triste
aay Tht wae a fatad mete”
The ODN adders aot off the follow:
wig meyehe the Florsba Revs on the
AL foot Lani Meretry, 16
we Vitae fe Ws, pay

died Teves Of eevee,
vie des tirasteon wos ano inbet af Cates
Pos Hay a Head det Bie Tree,
athe Ue be hoe Eber,

Reputed CIA agent

eral
orar

Phe bakes

Fhe,
He aehees
Arobenaran, Boa
She owned tena
cnneind

fihdes,

hoi chee tench

mesitiaee otters ow be
a ante Catia  erap.
eatuceed, lear waaa ods
satire Gf olde Cuban
the plat aed oO they
teocary itoant. the was
He CEA OP the prairie ts
ater Fee be Puuare teed

Biesee ded Bae

Thang

Mons

vowed a

abo be «
tothe abese ag
by Clperatian 1 An

Shortly afte: canietert on Mareh £9,
Mery oo tha uly bet tesa
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Invone CIA a fo kill Castro, the rifle failed to fire.

Mews prote

Super-seeret Operation, 40 wus stymicd-
: $0 many times by the alor? Cubans that
i it begun fo sound like Catch z2

Merange aon,

warsbaderp walter
Vite feat

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ae thet tis 8
ohbe leach
More than 100

feud been waestoetys
> Basen ary Diep
wit ws at ther

pad Lailleed,

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fap bt oon bn. wes
Mie Seug Thes two
Hiwa hetore a diet

tao days atler the

Seven Cubans
therb, oneladinge Ga
of the deters of:
fret Cuba te ins

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the Piston teases ceed went to
forthe OLA,

Pwelve or wud Castva py
were ever ded nextday. Api 20) Sew:
oF thins ow thet san the feet pes
tw oof Portress. Anam
them we “Sore Mara
fan whe leabied fienye \
ANN Ee Anette iae i iF
Laamelf Ratael Tia Beneen: peut
seg by PEA He reporteddy se
te baa

tie
nde
celled
ware
rye

en betaterh Ser Marun's grey

aulvouiona

the CPA plats coatinerd

eberiuns
Dean ag

Nuvs

lunedreds ot elite

Secrmarean Cher. 1d

vontonied

thea

hosing’ Kew,

tel
slate

Kew

aperited oul of West Palm Heach and

Bt. tauderdale, Florida, dt earried the
hatest jar wad Sonat equipment, fire
cunnens, several 30 caliber machine-

xis and two JU: fout specu boats

ite shipper Toportedty was Eugenie
Roland Martinez, a Miaui seal othe
siesman and GEA ayent whe made
Spe nectatmal rans ta Cuba.
(ile taken off the offeeid CEA
payroll in W872. the dav after he was
entahton Ue Watersate freak ed)
4) ane of

Biore Ubi
ats

a Che moght of duly 21,
th Rew speedboata deposited spa aien ure

na ospidt island aff Las Ville. provines

Vhe invaders reportediy had bers sent
tae Rill Castres atoca. duly rails in
Havani’s Plaga de da Hevoheten. fe

they never vot there, They wore picked
up hy a niilitary patrol secon after they

landed.
Men coptured

On the ouch ef Qet Of 189, the
Rex seat its twin speedhoals ashore at

the wertero tp ef Cub The Landi
was observed chy a mibtia patrol and
the six mena the fost beat were car.

tured na sean as they bir the bened. The
Second Jaunel: was xunk hy oa Cuban
sunbed ss ttoreeed back toe Ue Kea,
Cunnear fite fron the Rea slave off
Cuban ve bOVbew net i the water
hailed aboard (he apg stipe. Next
tieemng. a LOS Nueg aubancine ser:
faced iuaer the Hex off the cabanas,
Five Cubans four deand, one wounded
repertally were toansferret to Che sib,
whieh then submerged atid beaded fer
Florida.

Qhe touath after this tacidest, Breese
deat kK SSR Reosinsted by bor
Ha eto whe hak visstedd tee
Cul y in Mexica @ety shortby

hae
we

Bat

before the

tan and had youd the
pro Castra Warr Vay for Cub Coa
matter Pretdent donnson dates told an

hole, Lee
Nertealy
a Cretdlation”
fentn Go Kill tis

dotos, that ha theaght the
sate nnd tesa been
for the CLA binked ef:

dansae

Kew

These ¢ffert. ecmtuntied tee
hedy's devg hy
Leader of aludents

Tn the halt ef msi, CEN agente dn
Pars porte contaet with (aban Aras
Maw Rebanda Ciubslis, a her of the
Dactie pevelatien i ao teader et) the
Sede th osttsdent sepsis cetiar.
Cuban bern CLA wagers

sink Varh
sand pat te

brque Ursin
cbehe woth Cube
the

wath CEN apents werckiny ne
Atmercait bagloee yan Paris the fate
creme Ceautinat a few dive hater tn
Maden wt (alebis ret four aie
then. nol nee dd seerte
hte we Pistia peactoe vend he

foviter abo.
Wibe watett

div teak be

Qty. eetoctn te Phas a, ty

a hiyteowered sight.
Other

platters cated ne ane eusent

he”

Svertoobing the danddinge where the
frtine gutta ties Wee teentt
Cabelas regtagteddy atrew a be sd om CHae
Pre vene hey an pte He Lied ap the
timate hades tout agheesed Tha tigger,
Vact the rifle Guledb ge tape On tee oye
veel pein barer pot win of tle as ase
Mab rea 5 We acted abe dead Cl ediom
wed Seeen otter plotter . oath oof twa
weer saved trom tbe fen stad by de
stoner ap penth fren Cure

This seay Gave hers the
leaden atte capt tee Haste,
Hat oather 4 trata taste

Pore eset braety feetig

tthe plat ds feee the Boo €

x

By PAUL MESKIL
Fourta HY] @ serles
When Fidel Castro threw the

American gangsters out of Cuba,

they vowed to return—over his

dead bedy.

Their determingion te gut rid of
Carta was shared by nny high-placed
American ¢ffiwiis and this common
cause led eventually too an unhuly ale
Haney between the CEA and tie moh.
The strange story of CIA seents and
Mafia mubstera plotting together
against Castro was pieced tiyether from
Interviews with police, federal agents,
ex-agents and underworld sources. .

Meyer Lansky, the.crime “avndicate’s
financed genius, and Santo Trafficante,
Mufia boss of West Florida and Hava.
na, got out of Cuba immediately afte
the hasty exit of ther benefactor, dieta-
tor Fulyencia Batista, The overseers of
their gambling caninas remained on the
island, Mervausly waiting for the axe to

. fall . :
_ “L was in touch with all the easing
owners and operators in Havana,” said

tauk Sturgis, who was Castro's eusing
Inepector during this perwd. Fidel
Srdercd me to close ull the casinos for
1) days, The owners get the hint, They

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4 oA ffl oll.
lade Unto

knew he was preparing to shut
OT Permanently, }

“Phey were ver)
casinos were wort
ta the Aimerican eri

Slates had point

Upérecatage sy sn

$59,000 to 3i0duu,
“Lansky nnd Traffiounte

had direct business de
ta. Trafficante tad

Sans Souci partners

Sorman Rothman of Mram

Gabriel and Sam, Mafia
burgh, Rothman
tried tu stop the Castres

Accurding to police .
fothman was high
me syndicate and

in-taw, Gen. Robert “Fernandes

Rothman. returned, tu Flutis,

abst {a Stand

Reach, the goce

7 fi; 2. PS eRe Wines
Allisnce Wit:

W.4: Ceuby Flewo
SUSREYS CF
Wis GIA

aedels mest Chytant saute. an the
floor ovenoening the ve ty WAS
the ready fur Tratista, bat Le chose
ihe cooler ehmies of the Diminican
Iepublee, Portugal and Matera.

Sturges was on friendly terms with
several gacabling racketecrs, including
Hyman Levine, as Lars. met
tan Havana's Cumeders — ¢4

hald be wa,
Jeate to get aid of
turgis didn't rise to ths kat
schanged the subject.
tt popped up again og few weeks
er white Castro was in New Yous
ing’ & whirlwind tour of Nusti
h Amerea, .
Bidel and: eAtourave stared at
Stader-dilten, where TERRES Tegtise
under figs teal na and Cyhan
Ainitary sunk, Capt Pra
Frang was in lus ro.
when he received pie
detective captain an duty in the tobly
eS part of a beavy ecauity detail, No

(Caritinued on page 471


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Surroundod by his soldiers, Castro enters [evene in triumph after ousting the Uptista goverament.

(Continued trom page 6)
viniters were allowed an the Castro
figser withat special preenissien, sf

“Phon’s w guy here ty wee you,” the
sported. “ile anys ite’a your,
" a

cop
un

nd ders ns.” Peaok replied,

The short, pet belied man who are
ried a few numites tater fooked noes
hae 8 gedfather than aa unele. Frank
recosmiest tant fs on anember oof the

lias Kadnblings ioph. Conunye ateniqbt
ty fhe mont, the fo offered Fratk
$1on.top te dal rr)

“Posed Hey" Frank anid, end-
ng the conversation.
When ne returned to Havana a fowd

der he coparped the offer te hey
cdntacts at Und maerican Banta.

Stutyia had no fiirther contnet with
the yangster wie ppprenched

fuew Yorn, but semecone an the intedit
Cha

venee nictarely deceded that the
wud the syaudieate sneuld join jorees
: ro, The yasbotr ween picket

THIN grujeck reportedly was Norman
Minar wan in laud with aeveral
ayrents, a foraed avert todd The
Hick reaayy, Wee Lan ge cen
Sheng Cade Aton plots aginst Cade
tro.”

aed the inal-
Amory these
reek purrleya,
were Santo
no Meuunariny
nee CSsiy Bareay

Veet derrsem, fer Learn, adiae:
RA peeus.
ine these F

snd wgpbes tC tuerbe thee
Rlated Pourne, both af New Ver, and
John (Pen Crvangip dosed of bas
Vegas,

Graneila, a mefoher of the Vite
Genovese error Canty, biel ran eases
in Cadds aed howeeck a nisqor dn fettasth =
fay operation on Manhattan's b
Teurine, an sdercibe of New ler
woh clielieiag Mogyere ¢iehe the
Hoolp  Dludieaie aed (dere)
Oalene, sine apernted Mavatia cai
nos

Sewers sayae
Castes deme send fer
Gasgare Magouddine, a ete nan Marder
Tne. who hiflet anece than A pecple ue
vations party of the world hefare he
wad down away by a shut blast on
Hiealdya da 1d A Simliaa Matt
Maruddwin dual lived ia South Aue

aarales

citas
fe

Were tn for

Was fe

DOPE AP I2SE BENG" Paige CIP sno. seo

bows ty the tae

hing ine

q
iY

‘

!

Deprived of its Havana casinos, U.S. mob
joined CIA in series of plots fo kill Cusiro,
using everything from poison to dynamite

ani well An wag
asaanemnation
declined or

'
tro conp. He ktiew Uh
aoperfeet where tor the
AeAIK ET, but. he either
wasn'boffered the continel,

The mot and the C1A finaly gave Ht
fo Roselh, reputed Matias dust of Lea
Vegas, federal Beurees sand,

A dupper, gray-haied! man who calla
Niensetf a Hotty moves prod:

nid is henevolent patron of Vewns
shawgiris, Koselly veperted’s wag incre
duced to CPA apents on E00 by a Toward
Hughes executive at derdy worked

far the PHL Then. teder
Haeelli merecd te reeg ual oo
te gd det sha hunting Castine :
Money trom CIA ' |

Whe CIN was te lsupphy
heb Eran portatiens j
comron Maeda, blast,
And held soporte Herta. wah CON
ayents nd ‘Pratheante on the Unstre

al canner

Ley,

pred ote er bughaiy
rete Cube th
fae of these exp
Taaided an exerution
squsud Chats atterspted bast fisdedk fo dit
Castro, Gn Ther ceenaon, the crew of
Ravelti's ti rho Congbt on muting gui
Freht with ow tobaw puctiat beat,

Coltipentat duck Anderson repoeted
Heat CEA agenta pave Bocelli ae sine pad
son ates whieh be passed atone ten
Coban wheswas redited te Cuties chet,
Vhe chef was te put thesporan in Cad
tra’s fouds The semiees interviewed dey
the News confirmed! tind nt feat ene
atte pt was miade to poscon Cate b.

Aw Aimenent who was tive in the
WHILE RS underground in Cuba at the
dean acon to kal te
Len lias af osadied
sontecn the Taye t

Federal setrees sabd
ditions reportedly

beg

bath sent te Ox

Mitten in P6b,
“Cable ordered a

rode t+

every onflernoen ine Watetea
whava dedccaeht at ta lier
CWhet the waster sae in wide

26 Nika sorb
tee bray

Goweed ali he

t matha as

Tet aehont Che

you?’ The walter sn, ‘bo dott kmaw:
maybe Pyotr fever!” Castro tut hom
arrested afd had the donk analysed
Chemists found the parser riveht away

tnoeanty Yn, 8 omae elaborate
aasascination attempt was sireeted by wo
well finaieal Amencan whe anived ia
Hlavann soon after the astra takes er
aint lived there until security police ac
cused tue of wearking for the CHA and
jdedting to oeder Castce

Workin woth apt: Caste Cuban
dnitary attieeas the Anerson phanted
severad stiches af dynamite uieler ine
warcge fuer of aul stony ariinent
buikdtage were a aetibee Uaatre
ides and Comtmuniat-hlee  diplumate
devecl wath treie fuemibies,

“Caster cine ote Ce mpasetinent
yoiwe weeks fo see ue of fon
ure af the plotters amid oie
noon the

heute
weyutant,”
wlwuva™herived in the uftern
sume day of the week.

“Hie work dere
Kuan and yuark

im wlth bie lode.

es ear ue bee epi’

reserved far bin, We tial las sisits Uf

alwava tuok at lenst fae tenaies for

him to yet inte the sarge, mat oat the

cur and inte the freubt elecater Chat
I

togle bing apstages whace he wanted te gs

Ve ohm a dine of? four gen. tive
would sucnab fren a mecghy Wht
@asteo'a ene atatted ate 4 aye.
The signal wowhl be pac un Beer on
ecaple af puye woeld hit Ue planyer of
an ovleetronbe detonating neces Phe
detonator was i ms bated neue ipa

IneAt house,
We would
last. .
“The night hefuse
the yuys (the Cutan
final ineeting fe te ese the ate

Nobody

have hewn him fe

Vee oe Fragepeesa,
pietarer dadbow

tal

obi ou gtenage Linear

the dynaanite, bat a boeted at tee a
fC astro'e onbediaye ace cet vert betel

atel repented at.

ot othen

weP ae at

tote!
Geb raae feed

“They were ata
away frum the place where the

"Lhe ts :

maa
afvrn
veobf ols meet
Bintted gets ay aioe

Hteabe ela i.

rateck av erey deer dy

‘ an
f
f
‘.
i

canto Or

UPE Prate

Que of the plotters. a veune aniditary
elfices nanod feos basa, Slat rt ont
wrth the emiders and boled two of Chee
before de wa sa Et oe Metereyele
; Thies at rane tors, n't reted
aowhe tt hop tro tn
the Sietin Waeeiee. site captitid and
tare: te Gat bewlacarterd They ee
caped on few hour inter, wiih the help
of Ciends a lie tetehietice service,

fhae
off ae:

nid feanh refuge og the Peoxusven
Binibases

“Castro never foci out atvat the
vicar "sac souree whe dias
tleged the plet ty ws “dt’s pra
abl stil Chere,” woder the garage
floor?

Intell. genee sources tald thia report-
erthat the CHA sent an executan squad
tte Province it N we 190!
ta ambush Cusine near linge dd
Unie ashe drove ten memoret service
fur his fallen guertslina,

Salpers hid along road

Sripere heft among teres atid basher |
Timing the read te tne cemetary whee
the servne was ce te heli On the
Moorthy 60 the COPemOney, &

scheduled

Tietereade 1 five yeepa meopronchbed the
Kravevarnd Phe Gre yep was full of
seniiens. dn othe sec ab ue p om ball,

bratded maa rat peat te. rhe diver dle
Was Weare cute ae ts mish baa oe
CA Ra piel eab ot

Machine gains
seenid yeep ow
diver and tex 4
But ta be Caste e 7
faapt Vin
aavaped Seed Fe
eo tamen ase
tery

The CPN pate ara tt
ie Ue due mg are boo awer

an

acting the
whe turned
he lypruand,
Corners
Neti Taal pratettt
thee

pe heat
hae nas

flatien aha webb oe tM reuph the
ce
Pe te ate td
shimiee s Maaafeg,

pid Nave

nit

te ie frown i
fu fete ea President
Nusen tok ofboas £ yet lew yas

rly whe rhe ant
Fond pet decreed
be tie me

OT ee

te

Cay we tt tbepente

: BY PAUL MESKIL :

1 hast ef 4 series 7 ‘

, At 3:10 pm. on March 4, 1060,
a French munitions ship blew up
in Havana harbor, killing at Jeast

“6 people and injuring more than !

200,
The vessel, Le Cauvre, exploded dur-
“Ang the unloading of 76 tons of ammu,
Nitien and grenades intended for Fidel
Cpstro’s military 'and police forees. Cus-
tro suspected sabotage, but couldn't
prove it. The Uni States denied any
Suvelvement in the incident.
A force CLA asent told The News
recently that Le Couvre was snbutayed

by “CIA frogmien." He said an under.
vam shipped inty the

water demolition

re ns

Water at night and attached a bomb ta.

the ship's hull, under the wateriiae. The
homb, a detenator and a timing deviée
‘were in a waterpron! container, he said.
The ex-agent added that the frag
men were Cubans working for the CLA.
“Thoow defintely a CtA-eonnerted
things. he .
Another seurce gait the bemb was
Rupposed to ga off ureund 3 a m, when
] the aaterfiont was plesurted, bat sume.
Wrong eh the timer and
“Yohaues later, when the
Potsich dock weriers

thing ws

the blast

. arra uw
' aad harbor ty
Prt ane

ny

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- fe
nedted with the CLA and other | Tete
vence agencies in the Caribbean aren,
blamed the hig blast on Gen. fael

Trujillo, then dictatur of the Dowrican
Republic, : ‘

eTrujllo and bis sinister foleiligence
chief, Juhnay Abbes, had MAAY enter.
encee with CIA officials and qeoret
agents, On one secasign in Ne
Trujilio offered CLA agents Frank Fu
gis and Pedro Diat Lanz, former chief
Gf Castro's Air Foree, $1 million ty irad
en javacion of Cuba from the 1) pial
van Republie, Maz Lanz ‘declined;
ing bis CLA hasees thar he dhdn't Mant
tu work for unetaee dictator,

Plotting fo kill Trujillo ‘|

While in the Dominican Repul-le to
confer with Trajille in 1861, Syrgis
aleo contacted Deminican mmittary Soff.
cers Who were plotlng to halt Tr djitle.
Phe CIA agreed to give the piowers
wuns and anjnusition.

“The pane wcrived on h
supermarket in Cridad Te
maican
Domings
American

eS SORE i a

A

7 aS — * : -
low Us & Fre

. tan

dnd RECT ER
Wied CIA

‘
used the CIA wuns has not been dis-
claséd. Pat simular weapors figured ia
subst quent attempts to exterminate
Frasceig (Para Doe) Davalier, the voo
Joo Hither of Maiti,

On the night of Aug.
fonverted HOS hember felt Florida with:
An seme shipment for Gen. Teen Con
tava, a former Haitian Amuy command.
er who was planning to Invade his
hemeland from the Domini-an Reputlie,
Which shares the infond of Hispasicla
with Haiti, The C14 plane swooped over
& flareiit, Melt neap
mitary arport af Dajabon,
2 Weeden crites ruined down en parae
chuws, They teontained mortars,
biedohas, Meg rifles, .S0-caliber ma.
chive guns, M3 Tommy cuns, AS -catiber
Prelo.s, grenades and ammunition, Hl

The weapuns were scributed among
20)? Maitean es who compriaed
no army. They crossed
f. bordertine between
i Wabti cn
the Clliw.
fie wh Moa
tN tntiva led the gene

25, 1263, a

(Cont wued vn gouge $4)

the Dominican

mn

td ha wed w Nein bs on .

Oe? GS

ae EE An Am mer eH ati i. Te 6 a

Te ere ane nee

Ducato Mac celal, gubcre ‘

reo
4
C
>
Root

ee eee ee

t

|
hoo '
; en -
— 7
ao, : ' I

(Contuned rem page 4) |
{
o band hakgneross the riker
peat cated
S Upton a seal eraup at ilnt.
Divecg entered ats, Army 3

atal Ferra. yp at NBGh Carelina for
Tesaery ir t Wa & we Bot of
ths Waiters Seve du their eoaiy Sea anal
i online ot i Onued

sserepae tg the Ea Aitay

Aloe! cfm ting an New

Eten hand pickel( by the
Hine pre of fie brave

jotital jasasied in the
roel Caubtaan cagiape. {
He nsasion: force I. f of nie
af whoothad ben traded

prey june t ia

de

TEA avents Although the invasion fas
Cetmcd so failure before it hegan, [ihe
1: New Workers managed to hold

he tacien gtd Teonton Maceutes, '

ak ste huled one by ones nd
4h tree wee were deft hept fighting. The
a Test Vlrer ony Soran Gut of anzauni.
ws fom oen On then threw stones at
fe thy Geet who gunned them dewn, The
rihds of nt da ecee eat off amd aent to
Ve press dential palace in Port-aue

Pore .

Drops two gasoline drume H
H : fin Mt Lote ES flew bver
. Teaches pater nied heap peak tw yrasee
| eae of whith Hew a helt in
weeade the Ha White

fel dat ret explale, Ihe
: Nvericun whe

tony

ve, though no
CEA pla wae summee
harher at thie tame, Ute
delease of the USS Pheb-
rapture? by Coss
Autansy Ti

imagen

wae

the
wit ber ere ww,

rte hoe

Dachie

CN abet tive:
‘ iv Sword. hut) those
” Sopefer te she Mexr
Gopwenk feu che planes

. ot ee cuathingy ee “t, a
<d Put e f tebe wie a laser tdi oe!
Lo Fort) Line retale new
ad Coedvecr ce” ged Chagede
OUR ER ceppde ate .
wi any Sand
4 oh berth i
eo:
bo.
. applied Max
aeked woth
. arity
. t Fetters
; am) pers na’ one, » Fisth eventue
Bb eb See
: wo bab beet a Hiture serve
a hao on vob tereags Sees hid
vad Wor di. thers sary
t \ wo Mast were
Nata tis juted
. ac ee He sat he fil
+ Rover a cepoeee bone a Tite and
' Lad wae. The yom sate Kind
4 of pn ae Frou, Well, if
FM ay sat ake yen tonge.!
fee eg eh ST for a
emmy ae grment Phe wene bald af
was bea ccinotande Saet onte Cube
to free ite Trew Castea'a
CONE ange”
To deed cosbmee te the dues, Stur
: Bi dapaved a inp chewing the
or Hf Cake pret aueb paisa
He also, rad a dist of peooners

uppescdly were to be freed
Nene of the iven, not cen b'Bage

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eorperathen mee nluead »

contract yalis for

Ure al
ew Hana dearly Adi of ne a
were ihe bane db Has
Grote Ge officials ‘who ad
ty Perea thugs;
surte Vibledroutn, wis s
vonan wise father, Hae
thee Me Cel. Roger Villudrouin, fas |
clobte tite death by Papa Doe's Tyrdon |
Macs cir H
iPnev tattered a boat In Florida find |
ja ele H on Aug. &, 1864, enbry-
fae a Vatiely of weapons supplied f by

reds ef Duvaher soldiers, iili-

tea

Wide

Senate
jn ok.
» Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic, offered $1 million for a Cul-anjinvasion.
‘ : ot
t : : '

In the Caribbean, the CIA got involved

| in dozens of schenies, including blowiny up

' a French ‘ship and killing Trujillo

ot.

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SPciatReront Cuban Extremists in U.S.

Sh

Out from Miami spreads a wave of vio-
lence. Terrorists’ aim is to topple Castro, free
Cuba. Nearly all Cuban refugees share this
dream. But the acts of a few zealots create
trouble for fellow exiles and for the U.S.

Reported from
MIAMI and WASHINGTON

Terrorism by radical Cuban refugees has become a thorny
problem in the conduct of U.S. foreign policy and, in the
view of some authorities, a potential threat to the lives of
American leaders.

The terrorists’ goal is to wrest control of Cuba away from
its Communist dictator, Fidel Castro.

In pursuit of that goal, they have blazed a trail of violence
from Miami across the Caribbean Sea, not only to Cuba but
also to Mexico, Barbados, Jamaica and Panama—even ucross
the South Athintic to Argentina.

They have engaged in a series of bombings in the U.S. and
abroad. They have carried out military-style attacks on
Communist ships. They are strongly suspected of seversil
killings. -

A federal grand jury in Miami is investigating their activi-

ties and their leaders.
_ Now, as a new Administration. prepares to take over in
Washington, it is feared that the Cuban terrorists will step up
their attacks in an effort to thwart any turn toward reconcili-
ation with Castro. _ ;

Officials familiar with their operations warn that some of
the Cuban ‘extremists will stop at nothing, not even at
assussinating members of the Carter Administration.

“The Cuban terrorists are the most highly trained assassins
insthe world today,” says one US. official.

Many of the terrorists were trained by the Central lntelli-
gence Agency in the days when this country was trying to
overthrow Castro, or kill him.

The Setiate Internal Security Subcommittee recently held
hearings on the Cuban-terrorist threat. It heard this testime-
ny from Lt. Thomas Lyons, head of a special antiterrorist
squad of the Dade County public-safety. department in

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Miami, where Cuban refugees
are concentrated:

“The overwhelming mujor-
ity of the Cubans in Miami are
strongly anti-Castro. That's
why they came to Miami in
the first place. They are alse
law-abiding citizens who, with |
minor exceptions, manifest
their opposition to Castro in

“However, there are a smull
number of individuals whose |
hatred of Cuban Prinie Minis-
ter Fidel Castro and Commu-
nism has led them to engage
in extralegal actions and-to
violute the laws of the country
which gave them sanctuary. i
These individuals use Dade
County as a base for international terrorism . against \
governments allied with Cuba, Cuban shipping, Commu- i
nists, purported Commumists and individauls who tuke a i
stand against their terrorist-type attacks... .

Dr. Orlando Bosch, an anti-
Castro leader, is accused in
plane bombing fatal to 73.

“Some Cuban groups purporting to be involved in terror il

isi-type attacks against the Cuban Government are ne more
or no less than outright criminals, feeding upon the Cuban :
population and diverting the collected funding tor thei? own
purposes,” mee

Other investigators charge that the terrorists, to finance
their crusade, have dealt in cocaine and prostitution and. ins =
extortion from wealthy fellow refugees.

The number of hard-core’ terrorists is- smalh officially
estimated at fewer than 300. But their reach is wide. fn this
year alone they have either bragged about or been accused
of such acts as: Ooo.

* Machine-gun attacks on the high seas aguinst vessels
from Cuba and other Commimist nations. ae

© Bombing a wide variety of targets in the United States, ”
Latin America and Portugal. :

* Planting-a bomb that caused the erash of a Cubana
Airlines plane near Barbados om-October 6, with the loss of

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13 Lives. fowl

* Possible involvement in the stifFinsolwed bom death ¢

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_ EXILES vs, SSS
—-- CASTRO—

A Relentless
Pursuit

On Jan. 1, 1959, Fidel Castro took power and
the first wave of refugees fled Cuba. A smali
number of the 600,000 exiles who settled in the
U.S, have become extremists.

Highlights of events in those 18 years, some
involving law-abiding exiles, others involving the
extremists—

* 1964: A 1,300-man Cuban Brigade, armed and
. trained by the U.S, in Florida, Guatemala and Nica-

ragua, landed at the Bay of Pigs on Cuba’s south
Shore. The invasion was a failure.

1962: Survivors of the Bay of Pigs were released
by Castro after Payment of a 53-million-dollar ran-
som in drugs, food, medical equipment and other
supplies from “private contributions.” President
Jehn F. Kennedy, in Miami, pledged to the Cuban
exiles that the Brigade flag would one day fly over a
liberated Cuba. ;

US. launched its secret “Operation Mongoose’ —
a plan to use Cuban exiles in paramilitary war
against Castro while U.S. maintained an economic
blockade to shake the island's economy. The attacks
generally failed. ;

1964: Cuban extremists in New York City fired a

Mortar shell at United Nations as Cuba’s Ché Cue.
vara addressed the General Assembly.

1967: Cuban exile specialists and US.-trained

. Bolivian troops trapped and killed Guevara and
some of his Communist guerrillas in Bolivia.

1968-72: Cuban-exile extremists bombed ships |

of nations considered to be friendly to Castro, ter-
rorized other exiles to keep them in line.

1972: Cuban exiles trained by Central Intelli-
‘gence Agency took part in Watergate break-in, later
testified that they thought it would help their anti-
Castro campaign. ;

1973: U.S. and Cuba signed agreement aimed at.

“controlling hijacking of aircraft and piracy of ships
‘at sea, .

1974-76: Cuban extremists exploded more than

100 bombs in Miami area in two-year period, hitting

. Offices of the FBI-a State attorney and the Miami
police department, _

|” Exile terrorists attacked airline offices and consul-

ates of governments that have diplomatic relations

- with Castro. Bombings took place in Jamaica, Mexi-

co, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Panama, other countries,-

Fishing“boats based. in Cuba and Soviet cargo

. manned by exile extremists,
Terror reached its peak with the bomb sabotage
“of a Cuban dirliner and the death of 73 passengers
and créw last October 6..near Barbados. Police
seized Cuban exiles in Caracas, Venezuela, on suspi-
cion of involvement. in the sabotage. ‘Castro can-
F celed U.S=Cuba hijacking agreement..

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CUBAN EXTREMISTS

{continued from preceding page}

a former Chilean Ambassador in Washington, D.C., on Sep-
tember 21, ;

® Kidnaping two Cuban officials in Argentina.

* Attempting to kidnap a Cuban consul in Mexico.

Who are these terrorists? What motivates them? How do
they operate? And why are U.S. officials so concerned about
what they may do in the future? .

To answer such questions, Orr Kelly and Carl J. Migdait of

the US. News & World Report staff dug deeply into the
records, interviewed Cuban refugees who share the hopes
though not the methods of the terrorists, and talked to law.
enforcement officials who are trying to stem the violence.

BREEDING GROUND FOR TERRORISM

After Fidel Castro took over Cuba in 1959 and it became
apparent that he intended to establish a Cominunist state,
800,000 Cubans “voted with their feet” and fled their
homeland. Some 600,000 of them settled in the United
States, They and their children now total 750,000. Most of
them live in the Miami area.

The majority of these immigrants are law abiding. But
Miami’s “Little Havana” provides a culture in which the
virus of violence can grow, :

“In Miami,” explains one refugee leader, “the Cubans
keep their national identity, their heritage, traditions,
hatreds—and their hopes of going back to their homeland.
And they know they can't go back until Castro is gone. So

\they dream of toppling Castro, What is clearly unrealistic in

other places in the United States seems very possible in the
atmosphere in Miami,”

In the early 1960s, the overthrow of Castro seemed to the
Cubans in exile to be not only possible but almost inevitable.
It was US. policy to drive him from power. There was an
attempt to invade Cuba at the Bay of Pigs'in 1961 with an
army of Cuban exiles recruited and trained in secret by the
CIA. The invaders were not given the air cover necessary for
a successful attack, and the operation was a disaster. Only
180 of about 1,300 invaders escaped death or capture. The
Cubans felt betrayed.

Then came other American moves against Castro. There
Was a secret “Operation Mongoose,” which included efforts
to assassinate the Cuban leader. The United States backed an
economic blockade of Cuba in an attempt to prevent Castro
from obtaining sorely needed supplies and equipment from

abroad. Later, Cuban refugees were uscd to carry out secret

operations not only in the Caribbean’ but alsa in other parts

‘of Latin America—and even in Africa.

To many Cuban refugees, attacking Castro and Commu-
nisin became a way of life,

Since then, however,. American policy has failed to match
in intensity the fierce anti-Custro pagsion of the more mili-
tant refugees. In recent years, prominent members of the
U.S. Senate have visited Cuba. In 1973, Cuba made an
tgreement with the United States to curb the airplane
hijackers who had been using Cuba as asyluin. There were
moves on both sides toward normalization of relations be.
tween Cuba and the U.S.

As their hopes of American action against Castro ebbed,
some Cuban refugees turned to violence on their own. The.
hox on this page gives the chronology of developinents.

TERRORIST LEADERS AND TACTICS 70 oe a

Though their numbers ure small, the 300 or fewér active
terrorists. have organized themselves into many groups.
Slogs..s of one group chalked on the walls in “Little Havana”
have barely begun te fade before ‘they are replaced by the

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seemed Possible.
FLNC, Standing for Frente de Liberacion Nacional de Cuba,

Which means Cuban National Liberation Front, and Pr;

Dade ounty’s antiterrorist head, Lieuten
he has Stopped trying to keep track of the 8roups ;

t they are. Automobite bombing that killed a Cuban refugee in Miami is one
Suspected of having Committed. He has ° i

no Shortage of f many unsolved Crimes attributed tg antiCastro terrorists.
Usiness, Here is @ sample of the violence ;
terrorists in the last two years.

® Since February, 1975, there have been a

t least seven to focus their efforts Sutside the US. To direct the Activities,
4SSassination attempts directed against refugee leaders who anew 8TOUD was formed With the initials CORU, Which stand
Were viewed 4S opponents of the terrorists" tactics, Three for Coor inacion de TBanizaciones Revolucionaires Unidas
men were shot to death, One was Killed by a bomb, Three in Spanish or Co-or inating Committee of United Revolu-
other attempted Killings failed, but 4 prominent radio broad. tionary Organizations in English,
easter lost both legs below the knees When a omb ripped his American law-enforcement Officials Say that members of
Car apart. ave the backing OF powerfu! forces, berhaps even

* On Dec. 3-4, 1975, bombs blasted th Miami Office of the the 80vernments themselves, in some Countries of Latin
Federat Bureau of Investigation, a Social Security office, a America The terrorists are described as‘ ome” in Haiti

tate unem loyment Office, two Post offices, a ank, a State he Ominican Republic, Nicaragua and Chile They are well
attorney’s ffice and th Miami Po, 'ce-department headquar trmed for terroristic acts, as shown j the On page 32

ers, an accused Of those Ombings, an also the b mbin Since the une mee ng, anew Wave of terrorism has Swept

Of the Miam nternational Airpor two Months earlier, was across the Caribbean and beyond, Bombs have damaged
équitted recently in q federal Court. He is to be tried again uban airline facilities in Barbados, Jamaicg and anima,
in a State court, ; Wo Cuban Officials Were kidnaped in Argentina,

* A number of bombs have been exploded in New York, — n july 23, three men who had flown rom Miamj; Carrying
One bley out the Window of the Venezuelan Consulate on three coffee cans filled With plastic explosive attempted 16
Fifth Avenue, across the Street from St. Pp. trick’s Cathedral. idnap Cy an Consy aniel Ferrer Fernandez in Mérida,

On 42, 1976 a Oviet freigh er, the Dzhordano “Mexico, He escaped, but 4 Cuban fisheries expert was killed,
Bruno, Was sitting Motionless 35 Miles off Cuba’s North coast © most Serious act of terrorism came on October 6,
While its tanks were being Cleaned, Suddenly 2 small boat When a Cubana Airlines De. exploded in ight shortly after
raced close to the freighter and raked jt With heavy Machine. taking off from Barbados. The Plane fel} into the seu, killing

“gun fire. No One was injure, . Persons including members Of the Cuban national fencing

* On April 6, 1976, two Cuban fishing boats Were attacked eam,
und a fisherman was killed, In MESsuges to news Media, both CORU and Fi Condor, 4

On Sept. 21, 1976, in Washington, D.C, a bomb ey. 8Toup unheard of Previously, claimed responsibility for the
Ploded in a Car and killed Orlando Letelier, a former Chilean crash of the plane. :

\m assador to the U.S. er the Marxist regime of the late Dr, Bosch, who has traveled freely on documents appar-
resident Salvador Allende Alt Ough th crime js officially ently Provided by Officials of Covernments friendly to the
'nsolved, ¢ er ve been Persistent reports that the bomb

] anti-Castro movement, Was picked Up in
“Us planted by Cuban terrorists a8 a “favor to the

nezuela and on
secret November 9 Was charged with homicide in “onnection with
‘Olice of the Present an 4-Commmunist Government in Chile, the plane crash, Three Other men are Similarly Charged,
The arrests of Dp. Bosch and his Cohorts, instead of
NEW TERRORIST STRATEGY reducing terrorist Violence, may actually Stimulate More
Leaders of the terrorist bands are hard te identify. But one Violence. Fy Condor, in; message to the Inited Press
2n has emerged as an apparent leader. Dr. Orlando Bosch, nlernational on November 19, said the four men held by the
Dediatrician, He was caught firing g bazooka at a Polish nezuelans are innocent and Warned that, if they ware
Din Miam; harbor in 1968 and was sentenced to 10 years Convicted, Planes of the sarne Melt Internationa ae
| Jrison, ; : will be attacked. On the same day, CORU sent a Message
’r, Bosch Was released On parole after four years, but he _ Saying it would join With the Honduran Anti. OMmunist
uttedly returned to the Movement, He is now under Alliance in attacks on three airlines that Plan excursion
| ost in enezuela, charged ; & With three other Men-in ights:to Havana. _ omer
j bing. Dy osch ig Roberto Carballo, -g Militant leader. of veterans of the Bay ©
the Broup calling itself Accion "of Pigs invasion, denounced the threatened attacks. “Pp aids...
we oes “Castro by making al} Cuban exiles look like mad bombers,”
ars Dr, ‘Bosch called a Small group dF his , Carballo Said,
Stherit the Domini¢ex;, Republic. -They

ided on Policy and Strategy,

Look - CRACKDOWN BY Law OFFICERS
ie Wanted to 2V0id- the “riskszoe further attacks in the Since Jast Spring, there has been a Sharp, reduction: in
States and to Concefitrate their efforts. against Castro terroristic Violence in the Miamj area, That May be as Much =:
is country, “Of esssheld sit" fo, continuing their due to a successful} Counterattack by law-enforcement agen-
“ies both here and-abrojwa: ; . " cles as to the Policy that Was adopted by CORU last June. _
Argument, abHitky d8reoment Was reached Early this Yeur, an antiterrorist task force WAS Organivad 9!
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CUBAN EXTREMISTS

[continued from preceding page]

includes representatives from Dade County and Miami po-
lice, the U.S. Customs Service and the U.S: Bureau of
Alechol, Tobacco and Firearms. Although the Federal Bu-
reau of Investigation is not formally a part of this task force,

_ its agents work closely with it.

With co-operation from Cuban refugees who are sick of
the terrorist violence, law officers have arrested a number of
suspects. Police also have learned enough ubout other sus-
pects so that their freedom to engage in new acts of violence
can be limited even though there is not enough evidence to
prosecute them.

A federal grand jury is interrogating witnesses who might
have some knowledge of terror operations.

Efforts of law-enforcement officials to deal with the terror-
ist groups face formidable handicaps, however. The terrorists
seem to know what police are doing. Lieutenant Lyons
relates that one suspect “identified one of my officers who
had never met him before, called him by name and told him
what section he worked in and what his duties were.”

Terrorists are protected by a web of old loyalties. Most of
them worked at one time or another for the U.S. Govern-
ment. Many have had several roles: members. of the U.S.
Army, CIA operatives and FBI informants. One refugee
leader suggests that law-enforcement officials have not found
the killers of Cubans “because they don't want to.”

A further complication is the heavy -infiltration of the
terrorist movement by members of Castro's intelligence
corps. They not only gather intelligence but sometimes act as
agents prococateurs, instigating terrorist acts designed to
discredit the refugees and influence American policy.

The Cuban Prime Minister has “surfaced” enough of such
agents to reveal their pattern of operation. Early this year,
for example, Manuel de Armas, a Cuban refugee who was
named in Senate committee testimony as having been in-
volved in terrorist activities in Miami, showed up in Havana.
In an April 22 broadeast by Radio Havana, De Armas said
that he had supplied the explosives used in the killing of a
man named Rolando Masferrer and that a CIA agent had
provided him with the explosives.

In a speech on October 15, Castro boasted of a double
agent who Castro claimed had passed on coded instructions

One measure of the military equipment
that -is~acailable_to -Cuban sterrortsts is. 0

Mitre ndanks forextra ranges oie nae

wet Ax fumber of small, spotter aircratt- : . silencers -
1A wa

“Missilé- antitank weaporis. _— eral
a Wide: assortment of-smailler. WEAPONS are
quantities otf C- -Aexplogives devel-

prime Gy oe ew

@ 20 handguns =

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TERRORISTS’ ARSENAL:
PLANES TO CANNONS

A further measure comes from this tally

#.498-submachine. { auns. 480. of. them: with. vet.

“amb opis, devices— Seen nen

". _. @ Thousands of rounds of ammunition.

from the CIA. Said Castro: “From the very moment when he
was recruited by the CIA and over-a period of 10 years, the
supposed agent has kept the Cuban Government fully in-
formed of all his contacts with [the CIA] and of the equip-
ment and instructions he has received.”

Castro blamed the CIA for the airliner bombing and other
acts of violence.’ “Who else but the CIA... can carry out
these acts?” Castro asked.

Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has flatly denied U.S.
involvement in the airliner bombing. Ne said: “I can state
categorically that no official of the United States Govern-
ment, nobody paid by the American Government, nobody in
contact with the American Government has had anything to
do with this crash of the airliner. We consider actions like this
totally reprehensible.”

The CIA declines to discuss Cuban refugee terrorism.
Officials of other Government agencies say they seriously
doubt that the CIA, after all the criticism it has received for
some of its earlier activities, is still involved in operations
against the Castro regime. However, the agency is cleseribed
as providing very little help in combatting the terrorist
groups. “We have absolutely no contact with the CIA,” says
Lieutenant Lyons. “I'd like to, but they don’t talk to us.” One
reason for that attitude may be that laws bar the CIA from
domestic law-enforcement activities.

Other laws, or the lack of them, also complicate the fight
ugainst the terrorists. U.S. agencies cannot become involved
in investigations of terrorism outside the United States unless
the crime involves violations of neutrality laws making it
illegal to conspire in this country to commit crimes abroad or
to export arms without a license.

Although shocked by the October 6 airliner bombing, U.S.

‘officials reluctantly decided there was no authorization for

the FBI to enter that case.

With such handicaps as these, law-enforcement officials say
they can look forward to only limited success against the
terrorists. Any real solution to the problem must come from
within the Cuban refugee community—and investigators
stute that the co-operation they get there does not extend to
cases of violence committed outside the U.S.

WHAT HAVE TERRORISTS GAINED?

As officials size up the effects of the terrorist campaign:
The only tangible accomplishment has been to push Castro
into renouncing the antihijacking
treaty, thus discouraging efforts to-
ward a diplomatic reconciliation be-
tween the United States and Cuba.

Despite all the terrorist plots and
attacks, Castro remains firmly seat-
ed as head of a Communist regime
in Cuba: And it appears to the refu-
gees almost inevitable that the.
movement. toward-some skind:< ofa

oie | se cthe. fear nis. .w
7 Get when he ‘becomes PresiZ

“dent, will give’ new iimpetis to’ this
movement,,and.that.their-homeland

__ munist rule. Ske “

’ the terrorists will continue their ate
teinpts to keep the two countries

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will never be liberated “from” Cori Tenner!

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FROM: . HOWARD S. LIEBENGOOD
SUBJECT: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT INFORMATION OF JANUARY 19, 1977

I called Larry Callahan at 2:00 p.m. to advise him that
the Commiteee desired to interview Mr. Gene A. Boren, of
the IRS, at the earliest available opportunity and requested
his advice and assistance to accomplish this. Callahan was
nervous about the Committee's eagerness to proceed in response
to the memorandum for fear that we would be interfering with
an on-going criminal investigation. He noted the FBI was looking
into this and he would have to check with the Bureau to
ascertain the feasibility of proceeding unilaterally. I told
Callahan we did not want to interfere with a criminal investi-
gation and that I did not feel that our interview of the IRS
‘employee would fall into that category. Callahan referred to
a possible obstruction of justice on the part of that employee
in that the information had been withheld for approximately
five years. | ;

At 2:30 p.m, I received a telephone call from Paul Daly
urging Committee restraint in unilaterally investigating
subject matter. Daly noted the Bureau had just received this

information and was intending to interview the IRS employee.

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and other individuals in question today or tomorrow. Daly
noted that he was disturbed that Callahan had brought the

memo to the Committee's attention so promptly, as the Bureau
had intended to brief the Committee at the conclusion of their
investigation. Daly seemed most concerned that the IRS delay |
in bringing the matter to the’ Bureau's attention and assured

us that the Bureau was desirous of cooperating fully. He

noted the information had been furnished by Justice absent

a specific inquiry from the Committee and that we were being
unreasonable if we desired to pursue.the matter further at

this time. I asked Daly what information was available at the
Bureau on Brading and Hunt. He said there was a large quantity
of information available on both and that he felt he could pull
that material which related to the assassination quickly, but
would be reluctant to produce the information in its entirety.
I told him to ascertain this afternoon what information could
be produced immediately and he said that he would.

At 2: 45 p.m. I talked again with Callahan who indicated |
that Daly would be calling. Callahan said he thought the
Bureau was eager to redeem itself in this area and we should
give them that opportunity. I told Callahan that I was con-
cerned about the. mietitetien - ee position which Callahan
thinks is ridiculous. Callahan, however, did state that this
information was not as old as it looks at the Bureau, to-wit:

While the Justice received the IRS memo on December 30, 1976,

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considerable time went by before Attorney General, Levi could
address the issue of whether or not to entrust this matter to
the Bureau. Approximately one week ago, Justice went to Jim
Adams of the FBI with the request to look into the allegation
and was surprised to find that Adams was already apprised of

the situation and investigating, i.e., general indexes.
Apparently, Adams had been in receipt of similar information

-in recent days. |

Yesterday, in response to the Attorney General's request

for information, ‘Paul Daly hand carried to Callahan the Bureau's
response (which is dated January 14) and today Callahan hand
carried the package to us over Assistant Attorney. General
Uhlmann;s signature. Callahan advised that Daly was upset that
the Committee had been so promptly advised for fear that we
would interupt the Bureau's inquiry. Callahan apologized for

. the lack of responsiveness on. the part of Justice and the Bureau |
but things are in disarray with Levi about to depart. I assured
Callahan we did not desire to interfere in the investigation

but desired to be promptly informed of any developments and

that we would stay in touch with Paul Daly in that regard .
Callahan promised to expedite any Committee requests as

' made.

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Paul Daly called at 3:10 p.m. to advise that "the powers
that be" at the Bureau were upset with the possibility that the
Committee was considering going to Dallas and interfering with
the investigation. - He specifically that the Director be given.
an opportunity to talk with Inouye prior to any such action.

I told Daly that it was merely the Committee's desire ‘to go

to Texas; I had heard no discussion of going regardless of
the Bureau's position. Daly promised to pull together without
the need for a written request, all available information on

. i .
Brading for Committee review this afternoon, if at all possible.

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-- ORS MAIN FILE COPY
e JUL 231975 9.33
HE NEW YORK TIMES,

1C.LA. Used Agents’,
| To Embezzle Funds
THA

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pe? of n 7 a
: Fentas July 22 (UPI)—-T wo
sons,,of H. L. Hunt, the, late}
bill ire “contending - they
were discriminated against be-
leause of their, onservative
views, charge: yy that the
Central Intptligen Agency in+
lgittrated the family oil empire ||”

and used secret agents to help
2 $50-mi

lion from them yee
- ‘The brothers, Neison Bunker
nd W. Herbert-, Hunt,
new: Federal charges “that
lthey had tried to “cover . uD
a family wiretapping scheme)
e a: further result of an
“hy the C.LA. to discred-
Hunt oil empire. They
y ‘held the CLA. Fee
rlier. Federal
; they had spied
on aides of their father. < s:
They said” their refusal to
‘jallow the ‘CALA, to “yse | their
overseas Hunt Oil Company af-
filiate for espionge hai
to the Federal’ charges ga
os ee
. _ turn’ down.
ICLA., a massive embezzlement
scheme involving loses of ovet
illi the Hunt Oil
° the

’ loyes
J the scheme were
jsecret Government agents.” J
. & spokesman at C.LA. head-
quarters outside Washington
gaid, “Since it appears such &;
complicated ‘matter, ‘the agen-
-ley’s legal people would li
. {time to find out what it-is all
m, about.” veep at de afb
. #& Federal grand ju yester-
day charged the Hunt brothers,

Percy Foreman of Houston, a
tcriminal lawyer, three other
‘attorneys and. a retired. Texas
industrialist “with. obstruction
of justice for allegedly trying
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vsts down, deal with labor problems.

vamar/s low-keyed personal: stylé}

Steadman says Lamar has never given) |
im a direct order in the 15 years of',

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heir association) tends to make some!
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eople think of him as a sort of a Mr.
’eeperg with a yen to be a jock. “lA:
ually,"| says Maxfield, “he’s Clark!

tent, He is a mild-mannered, meek, |

veryday guy. But when money needs!’

o be committed, he goes into that little:
hone booth and comes out with an ‘S’:
nhis shirt.” ”

rlucky 11 trusts -

The bedrock of Lamar’s personal for-''
une isthe trust that his father set up.
or him in 1935 as part of a tax:.
trategy planned with the aid of vet-:
ran Hunt attorney J. B. McEntire! At’
hat time, a trust was established for.
ach of the Hunt children. In 1958, the’

attern was repeated when the elder: ;

lunt established trusts for each of ithe”

acond | Mrs. Hunt’s children, calling '
hem Loyal Trusts 1, 2,3, and 4. Except '
or Hunt Oil Co., which went entirely;
> Mrs| Hunt, HL. Hunt left the Bulk’
f his personal holdings to the Loyal ,
rusts,| whose ‘beneficiaries are Ray;
funt, Ruth Jane Hunt, Mrs. Randall!
.. Helen LaKelley) Kreiling, and Mrs :
fark A. (Swanee Grace) Meeks
The Size of these trusts is _
nknown, but one of the ~
roblems facing the Hunt
amily |is how to commingle
1 separate fortunes (those
f the|10 children plus the
uth Ray Hunt Trust) to
iaximum advantage. Dallas
riends of .son-in-law
Randy” Kreiling say the
uestion is being debated
‘armly within the family.
Jthough Kreiling’s role in
te Great Western United
ikeover was relatively mi-
or, it did demonstrate a-
illingness between the two
bling|groups to cooperate.
Lamar Hunt observes
iat, since the bulk of H. L.
unt’s} estate was left to
irs. Hunt, “it was a natural
ting for Ray to be the per--
mm who looks after it.” La-
lar adds: “It does not mean
rat Ray will run the busi-
ess. He will be making an
rderly transition, a change
o whatever happens. He will
‘ave the responsibility of
raking decisions in relation- .
chip to Dad's property, but

itad’a) Operation was much
im yeh ngePEYy sik es

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nolic, Lamar says. “Our
hy is not one of promotion of
- stéck:and promotion to the public,” he
gays. “Each of us has his own interests.
.All of us operate in the oil business,
sometimes together,. sometimes as an
independent oil operator. Hunt Oil,
- which was my Dad’s company, will be
run basically by employees of the com-
‘pany. We all will continue to operate
out of the Hunt Oil office.”

‘Maxfield, who has been observing

“i, the Hunts for nine years as Lamar’s

partner, believes that Hunt Oil and
Placid Oil will carry on the monolithic

8 base of the family fortune. “It’s like a

tree trunk, with each brother. having
his own branch,” he says. “Oil is not an
expression of tthe personality of the
sons as it was of the old man. The ex-

| pression of the brothers will be in the |

branches— ~Ray in real estate; Lamar
‘sports; Bunker horses, commodities,

ties. ” And while the brothers are

‘branching out, Maxfield believes, “they |
will run the oil companies collectively .

with a professional staff.” ”

Stormy weather closes in _

nesnvnite, « a “threatening” cloud
looms on the family’ 3 horizon. Not only

‘prompted by Bunker's

’ and her children. Three
and agriculture; Herbert in real estate, |

residential development, and commodi- °

. tappers’ arrest and the

list because of his Libyah holdings. . F

la

is an oft- -delayed lerian ahead tor
Bunker and Herbert |Hunt on the wire-
tapping charges, but there is also the

threat of more indictments against

_ them by a federal grand jury that has
‘been sitting in Dallas for more than a.

year. The Hunts claim. their wiretap-
ping activities were; aimed at uncov-
ering suspected embezzlements from
their father’s food concern. In their
only statement on the matter, over 2

year ago, they cited: “extensive, unex-
plained losses” suffered by the com-
pany, “We only sought| to protect our

‘father and his property, as any others

would have done,” they said.

But one of the wiretappers, Jon Jo
seph Kelly, says that the tapping was
land Herbert’s
suspicions that someone was trying to
influence H.L. Hunt/ to leave the bulk
of his estate to the second Mrs. Hunt
of the wiretap
victims back up Kelly’ 8 version.

Just two weeks ago,

Whitten aired a recurring Dallas ru-
mor that the grand jury] i
an alleged “$50,000 to $60,000 payoff” —
from Bunker to the: chairman of the
Senate Judiciary Committee, James O.

' Eastland of Mississippi, in return “for

Eastland’s assistance in getting a pa-
role for the other wiretapper, Houston

' private eye Patrick’ wi McCann III.

Eastland wrote a letter on McCann’s
behalf, but Bunker has denied that
there was any payoff, |

The Dallas grand jury. is ‘said to be
mulling the Eastland: ‘connection, as
well as the circumstances surrounding
the three-year lapse between the wire-
indictment of
Herbert and Bunker on Feb. 28, 1973.
Hunt family lawyer told Dallas Morn-
ing News investigative reporter Earl |
Golz that Bunker managed to strike a
bargain with the J ustice Dept. in which
“there would be no prosecution of the

‘Hunts if they performed certain ac

tions; they performed the actions, but
there was an indictment! anyway. ”

in their syndi- a
_ cated column, Jack Anderson and Leg

is looking into -

Ne ee eee

The actions, reportedly made after) _

1972 meetings with former President
Richard M. Nixon and former Attorney
General Richard Kleindienst, included
Bunker’s providing Justice with a list
of Al Fatah agents in the U.S. He had

secured the list privately because he ||

feared he was on the Al Fatah death

For the Hunts, the wiretapping epi-.
sode has’ proved disastrous. Bunker and ,
Herbert could receive prison sentences..
And, more than anything else in the.

_, family’s history, it has: torn the tightly ;

woven curtain of secrecy behind which
the family has lived and worked for
more than four decades.

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which

gely based on substantiated information such as

ords provided by the FBI,
| the California: Attorney General's
ce officials. ;

Noyes book

the Los’ Angeles Police

Office, and

(like most recent assassination books)
ll well or receive much press attention,

it has

ded asa valuable contribution by most of author

low Warren Commission critics. , '

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particular
have been ||

by officia:

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mysterious’
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findings,

ly with respect, ,to his main character Jim Braden,

1 police records.

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The man was apprehended by a Dallas.
was behaving suspiciously.
dér the false name of Jim

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The man ,
; Braden, (was
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factually substantiated and are solidly established

tie Noyes book outlines the backgtound of a
man who was picked uo by the police; at the scene
nt Kennedy's assassination just minutes after the

policeman who
who identified
released

s

be

Author soves uncovered the story of Jim Bradan: and his
true identity during five'years. of investigative research,

And it is|

lizim. Braden! s true identity and his jdropic misfortune

of being picked | up at the scene of the assassination for

“looking
believe

s
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tape on
fatal slip

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~ups in the two;conspiracies. ° ‘|

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Warren Commission critics now
with James McCord's mistake of |leaving masking
tHe, doors during the Watergate break-in as the ultimate


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For Jin Braden, whose true identity. is Eugene Hale Brading, .
isa man iwith singularly awesome direct ties jto the highest
levels of the Mafia. Of all the Mafia figures|iconnected to
the syndicatel's crucial security and enforcement activities
of coercion, maiming, intra-syndicate assassination and
outside murder contracting,: Jim Braden appears to be an
indispensable link - or leader - of organized) icrime's
far flung network of “controlled violence” specialists
and professional hit men,

Braden's involvement with the Mafia's hiqhest lechelon
"enforcers"|ihas spanned the! continent from coast to coast
and covers virtually every national crime syndicate juris-
diction. According to federal authorities working with the
Justice Department's organized crime strike force units, and
according! to other high government sources cited by author .
Uoyes, Jim Braden is now serving as personal courier for
Neyer Lansky. lo i

The importance of this nyse erious man who was: picked up
under a fallse)name across the street from the] Texas Book

Depository just moments after the shots were fired on
November 22/!) 1963 cannot be: overemphasized.
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Though there were several innocent witnesses or bystanders
in the areallof the assassination who were also| arrested or .
brought in for questioning by the Dallas police, all of whom
were shortly released like Jim Braden, his ‘presence there at
that precise monent does in) fact raise an incredible specter,
“and may indéed have been the. monumental Slip-up that critics
of the Warrén Commission now attest to.

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Deputy, CLL, Lewis was One Of the first Dallas Police
officers|on the scene at the Texas Schoo] Book Depository
following the “$Sassination, ; ;

Within just Minutes after the deadly Shots were fired,
Deputy iLewis Confronted a man 8Cross the Street from the
‘Book Depository, 42 Man whom Lewis thought Was "acting
SUSPicibusly,« ;

Deputy bewis’ questioned the man for 5s
taking him to -the Sheriff's Office for further interrogation.
The re adentified himsel¢ as Tim Braden, anq Said that he

VAS in the Oil business in Beverly Nills, California, Deputy

tried td identity himselg, Instead of Producing his driver's
license, the common means of identification, the man Pulled

- ‘The han who identifieg himself a3 Jim Praden strongly Protestegd:
When Deputy Levis told him that he would have to take him in
for further interrogation .

At the Sheriff's Office, Jim Braden agreed to Nake a voluntary
sapecment. Braden, then 48, told the police that he Was in
Dallas On| oi] businass and had been there for two days. Ho
Said he was Staying at the Cabana Hotel, S Short distance away
from the Scene of the 8SSassination, Braden Said he haq been

Jin Braden further Stated that he Was Confronted by Deputy
Lewis inside a building 4Cross the Street from the Depository
during an attempt to make a telephone Call following the
Shooting, ;

Braden "asi shortly thereafter Teleased by the Dallas Sheriffes
Office,. Braden WaS not fingerprinted, nor was any check made
of Possible Criminal records relating to hin, 7 ;

Two months later, in late January cf 1964. Jim Braden was

interviewed by two “PBL agents at his Office in Beverly Hills,
: The Varran Commission's investigation Was then in full Swing .
: : and witnessle. to the 46SaSsination were being Guestioneg by
j the FRI and other authoritios. In his "BI interviow, Braden
Tave the Same! account aS he had Given to the Dallas Police on
the dav oF the @SSassination, The PBI. Official Teport on
praden's interrogation further Stated that, "Braden has no
information concerning the 'SSassination 4nd both Lea Harvey
Oswald ang Yack Ruby are Unknown to hime... :

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‘In early 1969

“sugene

4 . o . .
Jim Draden's] ‘true Identit

Peter Noves

, the investigative reporter

whose book covers much of the information regarding Jim

Braden,
“oll man."

4

began investigating the mysterious California

i . :
Moyes originally received a tip about Braden from a

former FBI agent who was

then aiding District Attorney

Jim Garrison's investigation of the Kennedy assassination.

The FBI man itold Noyes of Braden's presence at the scene of

the. assassination at the time of the shooting.

HToves soon found that Jim Braden was no longer at cither

of the addres

Uoves

ses that he had given the Dallas’ police,
had left no Irorwarding addresses,

and

then hiad the California Department of Motor Vehicles

run a check ion the license number that Braden had given to

the Dallas police

assassination

license (H751755)
county in Hovember

business and

at the Sheriff's

Motor Vchicles told
had been reneved
Braden
home addresses, which

of 1966.

a hundred mijles apart.

The Department of

also showed
name,

i
on September
ale

new license

10,

1963,

Motor Vehicles!
that "Jim Braden" was not really his original
The license had actually been issued in the 1950's
to Eugene Nale brading,

Which is Braden'

office following the
Noyes that Braden!

by Braden in San Diego
has also listed naw
interestingly were over

records on Jim Braden
true identity.

the Department that he had

Intrigued by the fact that Jim Braden was really a.false
idgentity as ssumed by Euqene Brading, investigator. Noves
contacted the Intelligence Division of the California

Attorney Gene

mysterious Brading.

Oves Was
's

ms
He

ra

told that

Office,

and had a check

run on the.

Eugene Hale Brading “is a real bad guy.
got a Tong rap sheet and apparantly has Mafia connections."

and he requested a
junder that name, The license was granted,

just ten weeks before the assassination,
Brading had notified
leqally changed his name to Jim Braden,

Noyes shortly thereafter obtained a copy of Eugene Brading's

(Jim Braden's

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police records.

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The Brading, "rap sheet" contained an incredible 35
seperate ‘entries covering virtually every phase of
criminal activity, including mail fraud, embezzlement,
onerating: ai gambling house in Miami, car theft, shop
lifting, receiving stolen property, “and selling wartime

gas ration coupons on the black market.
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Host of those arrests had been made under the nane of
cugenc | of, Hoke arrest but the police dossier on him also
Showed a thandful of other aliases, including Harry Eugene
Bradley, iGene Brady, James Lee Cole, James Bradley Lee,
and inevitably, Jim Braden, Bo

"Tim Braden" was the last entry shown on Brading's
records. Le :
Incredibly; l investigator Noyes found that due to the fact
that the [Da ‘las police had not fingerprinted Jim Braden or
run a male: on, him, his true identity of Eugene’ Brading was
never didcovered by the FBI or the Warren Commission at the
time of their investiqation of the as a heedoetene The Warren
Commissidn. haa only routinely included Braden's short state-~-
ment about being in Dallas on “oil business" in a volice
xhibit oli witnesses contained in Warren Commission Hearing's
Volune IRC! Dim Braden and his story had been accepted at

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rene Bradina) And The Mafia

Jim Bracen |
Investigator Moves began ‘a thorough investigation of

Braden’ based upon all available police records and
docuncnts|, '

“What soon clearly emerged was a long record of involvement
by Braden} (Brading) with many of the most notorious Mafia
leaders in’ the nation, a record of close association with
hey figures in the national crime syndicate.

PFollowing}a string of arrests in the 1940's, dating all
the vav back -to his young-adulthood, Eugene Brading had
moved to Il Paso, Texas, in 1950,

(BRADIG ap PEREIRA)

In El Paso, | Brading became closely associated with Victor
Percira, a man who was a close associate and confidante of
several Mafila members. Brading and Pereira became involved |
in a numbér jof schemes involving marriage to’ and embezzlement
of wealthy widows, ;
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In 1951, Brading and ‘his close friend Pereira were arrested
by the ret in,New York on a fugitive warrant issued in Texas,

The two man were charged with embezzling over $50,000 from

a wealthy | widow whom Pereira had married shortly before
fleeing with her money. Srading and Pereira were soon con-.
victed of/ the) charges and were each sentenced to 12 years
in prisons | | ;

!
Nowever, Brading and Pereira were out free during the three
years of their appeals, and Brading was later paroled in 1959
after having served juste five years of his sentence.

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( BRADING AND THE SMALDOMES)

i

During the three years of freedom under their appeals of the
convictions, DLrading and Pereira left Texas (following still

another fleecing of another wealthy widow) and moved to
Denver, Colorado. —

In Denver} Brading became very closely associated with.
two leading] Mafia bosses in the- Rocky Mountain area, Clyde
and Gene Smaldone. ;

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the Smaldone brothers, who were also known as Checkers
and Flin Flon, "were the Mafia leaders in charge of the
syndicate!s: vending-ma chine market which stretched from
the Rockies all the way to Chicago. Police records show
that at ohe, time, the Smaldones virtually controlled the
entire Pueblo area of Colorado.

The Smaldone prothors were notorious for the brutal brand
of violencee. they practiced in their operations], Bradinag-
(Braden) becane involved in many transactions. With the
Smaldones;and became a close personal friend. Several years
later, after Brading finally went to jail-for the embezzlement
of the Texas widow, the Smaldone brothers requiarly wrote .

to him in| prison, secking his advice on various financial
matters, :

BRADING AD, CLARK AND BAUHAI)}
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Brading and’ his friend Pereira later moved to Beverly Hills
in Califotnia. Shortly thereafter, Brading inevitably came
under investiaqation py the Los Angeles Police Department

ee
intelligence Division's Mafia specialists.

ot

In partichlar, the LAPD interest in Brading was focused on
his close association in Beverly Hills with two "oil specu-
lators" ‘€rom fiami, Arthur. Clark and Roger Bauman. Clark
and Bauman were notorious Nafia figures with Teng police
records,

Brading's friend Clark had been one of the ton leaders of
the famous Purple Gang of the Mafia, which hadj onerated

{

out of Detroit and Youngstown. The Los Anceles! police had

nlaced Clark and Bauman under tight ‘surveillance and had
compiled @: ztensive information on their friendship with

Brading. ; ‘
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In. 1956, the Chief of Intelligence of the LAPD Captain

James Hamilton, sent a letter to the Crime Commission of

Greater Miami seeking information about Clark, Bauman, and

Brading. |

Cantain Hamilton, who was known as one of the foremost

experts on the Mafia in the nation, asked the Miami Commission
(which was conducting extensive investigations of the Mafia)
to inform) him as to the involvement of severall associates of
Clark and} Bauman,

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Buildina, ‘Miami Beach,

very |lavishly."

"Clark, has been arrested several
assogiated with many confidence m
as James Fratianno, Victor

Clarénce Rhodes, Stephen Sambor a
brothers of Denver."

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with Brading in the letter, represent
of organized crime leaders’ between Cal

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Of these bob Mafia men listed with Bra
the most imborta nt one is James Fratia
as "Jimmie The Weasel." Fratianno was
Hafia! S highest ranking executioner in

In 1959, injnis testimony before the
the California legislature,
LAPD Intelligence, stated that,

"ia ave; long considered PFratianno to.
executioner for the Mafia on

bo tho}
the Vest: Coas st.

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Rackets
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knowm as perhaps the
the nation,

Conmittee of
the Chief of

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Division had linked Jinmie Fratianno to at least sixteen Mafia.

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Fratianno!
of Los Angeles Mafia head Micke ev Cohen

had jonce been arrested for the attompted as sassination

in 1949} Cohen -had

survived the bloody shooting which took the life, of one of

his lioutenants,
ficient evidence.
‘at the home of
shooting.
Nafia, and,” perhaps significantly, was
the Mafia in Dallas Texas.

Mafia associate Nick

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Fratianno used the alibi that he had been
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Jimmie Fratazan
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robberyv,. Both, their skulls had been
bullets fired! boning the ear, apparant
fashion, 1

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Fratianno had, also been Linked to the
Harry "Hooky "| Rothman, who-had been an
associate of Nickey Cohen,
Also,

another top|

Nickey Cohen

at Pratianno " 'S home one night.

gambler,

that he “owl 4 t

Fratianno! later
extortion
involved in
Joseph Alio
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the Mayor) h
$105,000 fro
Board, Arboles,
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Brading's name

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LOOK Magazine!

alleged fafia connections.
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a bank where
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but| denied that he had used anv

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man in northern California in 1952,

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charge hiddenj under the hoed of his car

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Mafia leader Narold

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bookmaking and prostitution syndicate in |

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undervorld, he is known to all the important
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yet another cop HNarila operation. Bradinag becane a close
friend and jassociate of the notorious Sica brothers - Joe,
Preddic, and George. The Sica brothers were particularly
brutal syndicate members specializing in narcotics,

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friends, Joo and Freddie Sica, of heading the |single largest
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others were shortly thereafter brought to trial.
On the night before the trial -onened, the government's
star witnods|, an informant named Aba Davidian! was mysteriously
shot to geath in his mother's home in Fresno. }The murder was
never solwed) and the Sica brothers were soon neleased for
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The same inadequate investigative work which|led the
“Warren Commission to largely overlook Jack RU mis solid
fafia invelvement, appears also to have been |responsible
for the failure to uncover Jim. Braden’s true |identity of
Bugene Br ading during the official investigation into the

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substantial) ties to the Nafia, Ruby was parti ularly
involved nj the syndicate areas of. gambling a gd narcotics.

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But bevond tthe multiplicity of evidence which hindicates
that Jack Ruby and Jim Braden were both important Nafia
figures operating in the same general areas, |at the same
general times, tnere is another single niece of evidence
which plages both Ruby and Braden at the same| place on the
day before: the assa 28sination. ap :
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- ' Evidence indicates that both Jim Braden and Jack Ruby
visited the| Dallas offices of the M.L. Nunt oi- Conpany
on the afternoon of Vovember 21, 1963, just twenty four
hours beferg; the President was murdered. Obviously any
link waich places both Bradon and Ruby in ne Sane place
at the same] time on the day;before the as 3sasgination does
of cours e|raise further significant questions, bout a
possible Fetationship between the two men, | fe
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Jim Bradeh keceived permission from the U.S. /Board of
Parole iniLos Angeles to make a trip to Dallas|i Texas on.
November. 13), 1963, four days-before the assassination,
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Jim Braden: ‘checked in with the U.S. Parole office in
Dallas Aecording to Roger Carroll, .the Chief Rarole

or ficer in Dalllas, Braden (Brading} “advisedithat he |
planned to: sue Lamar fiunt and other oil speculators while
here." bahar Tunt is the son of H.L. Hunt, the famous
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Security for the Hunt O11 Commany in Dallas athithat time,

has recaltcd that he distinctly remembers Braden visiting

tne Hunt offices.on November 21 in the company) of three

other men|l -Rothernel has stated that the office log for
Uovenber 21| showed that Roger Bauman (Bradinq! Us old Mafia ‘
friend) and Norqan Brown and Duane Mowlin “andl friend" :
visited the| Mint office on that afternoon. Rothermel states.

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hat Braden. was definitely the "friend." ops

(security| chice Paul Rothermel was later fired) by W.L. Hunt's
sons after reports allegedly surfaced that Rothernmel was
“suspicious! of a possible Hunt connection “toi tie assasSin-
ation, Following his termination by the [hnts, Rothermel
found that be was. being illegally wiretapped.: Rothermel

filed suit hoains t Lamar Hunt and another’ one! of HL. Hunt's
sons, charging them with the wiretapping, andl Asking for
several milion dollars in damages, The suit,:which has
produced very damaging cvidence against the Hunt brothers,
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according! to| a concluSion of the Warren Commission, Jack
Ruby was also on his way to the H.L. ilunt offices in Dallas.
The Warren ‘Commission concluded that Jack Rubyidrove a woman

friend of
noon. Thelw
as a stripp
in search|

visit to th

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Inan, who had declined work in Ruby."s nightclub

x, drove with Ruby to the Hunt offiices, apparantly
emolovnent. This does coincide with Braden!

same offices on that same netornpen:

The Warren Commission investigated soveral other possible
Links of vack Ruby to the trunts, including ca still
unexnlaingd) fact that Lamar Hunt's name was and inside

the

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Warren Commission concluded only that evidenée ‘did indicate
that R oy had, driven to the Hunt offices on #oyyenbor 21.
Thus a posible : suby Be raden connection on the May before
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of information which indicate a possible connection between
Jim Braden and the mysterious David Ferrio.

David Porgic was the homosexual airline pilot jand private
investiqator whom Jim Garrison accused of participating

in the plot to assassinate President Kennedy. (Six days: after
District “ttorney Garrison's charges were madal public, David
Ferric wag found dead in his apartment in wew Orleans. Ris
mysterious death was finally ruled to have becn a suicide.

David rordic has been a taraet of investication ky critics

of the Yaxren Commission ever since the fS5G6aRS6sination., In ‘
fact the &BI and Secret Service both invosticated a possible
Ferrie role immediately after the assassination. Tt was

widely rumored in Hew Orleans: and Dallas: that \Porrie was to

have flown the alleged assassins out of the country following

the assa asdination. The Varren .Commission deciddda ‘not ta include
the offictal Secret Service and FEI renorts om; Ferrie in the

26 Volumes of Hearings which were releasod after the Narren
Report was issued. However, the Justice Denartment did finally
release those renorts to the National Archives! in 1967 following
Garrison's vublic accusations.

Author Noyes has since established that both | ‘Sin Braden and
Davod Porrie worked out of theYfloor of offices in a building

in New Orleans in the month or two immediately| preceding the
assassination, :

“This is particularly Significant due to the fact that at that
time the mysterious David Perrie was cmploved as a private
investigator by Carlos ‘Marcello, the top llafialkingpin. It
is widely Nelieved by most federal authorities! that Carlos
Marcello ranks with his close *ricnd Heyer Lanskv as one of
the two. single nost powerful leaders of the Wafiats nationa
and internationeal crime syndicate, Carlos 3 ‘arcello heads the
Maiia empire centered in New Orleans, Louisiana, and controls
nost of the Mafia activity in the southern part of the United
States.

In September and Octoher of 1963, just vwoeks before the
assassination, David Ferrie was working out of the offices
ef Carlos larcello's criminal attorney, G. Wray Gill. Ferrie,
who was doing investigative work on a nerjury | charge that his
_ boss Harcello was then facing, worked out of Room 1707 in the
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Braden was operating out of Room 1701 in the Pere Marquette
Building. ;

have Presidant Kennedy and his brother murdered, Reid has
written that he was told of Marcello's. threat, by an informant
who attenGed a- secret meeting with Harcello in New Orleans in
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lieutenants, “Don't worry about that-.little Bobby
sonofabiteéh). Ue's qoing to be taken care of." |The
informant, stated that Marcello said that President
Kennedy himseJ)f would have to be killed first, and
that his brother would then follow. ‘The informant
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Peter Novas, the investigative Yeporter who Uncovered
MOStlofF the materia] Tegarding Jim Braden (fugene Brading) |
is altformer Classmate and close friend Of ‘Judge. tiattheyw
Byrne, Jr., the ULS, District Court Judge who Presideg
Over Ithe “llsbera Pentagon Pavers trial dase year,

As ist now Vell known, Judge Byrne dismissed the case
against “llsberq after he Vas notified that ‘the Thite
ouse| Plumbers had once burglarized the ‘office of
fllsbergts PSvchiatrist, me

A Short time Jater, it becane known that ‘President Nixon

had twice instructed John wbrlichman to annroacn Judge

Byrne during the Course of the “llsherg trilal ang offer him
the position Of Director of thea PBI, This offer, which Judge
Byrne Tefused , has beon Tegarded as a Potential act of
Bribery itics of Prosident Wixon, and is currently
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in the Mulcoma o« the Prosecution oF Bll sbera may hava

been thle motivation behing his appreach to Judge Lyvrne,

Author Moves has written of his friend Judge] Byrnes
involvement in his Pesearch on Jim Braden, In 1969, after
“Noyes hed accumulated’ much Of his information regarding

the RYSterious Braden, he toor the informatidn Eo his
Friend, [Mate lyrne, Who was then u.s, Attornay for Southern
California, Noyes had several talks with Byrne, ana has saig
that Byynle Was very impressed by the Substantive evidence

which Polves had Tatheroad, During One of thesa "meetings with
Dvrne "nd) another FBI man whom Byrne ‘hag invilted to attend,
the -ppy man tald Joyes. that the Fpr had never before Known
that Jim) Broaden ~ the man ®rrested at the $cens Of the
nesassination in 1963 ~' Was actually “uence |Brading, the

PBI man Said that the Bureay MUSt have made la big Mistake

in not t¥acing down Braden's true identity And police record, -

the Farr mari was nearly incredulous Over Hoyes# evidence on
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in Los Ancelas On the night that Robert Xennedy was 8SSassinated
in early June of 1968, yp -

Though Noyes Couldn't fing any Significant information indicating
any Braden Connection to.the Second Kennedy murder, he and his
friend Hatt) Byrne Forwarded the information on Braden to the -
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but was indeed impressed by the Braden connection to the
1963 as salssination. Noyes writes that Judge Byrne never
heard anymore about it after he forwarded the jinformation
to the RFK inve stigators.
Later, “ttorney General John Nitchell slected |Byrne to

be Executhve Director for the Serantoen Conmilssion that
investigalted student unrest several years ad . Following:
his work rok the Scranton Commission, U.S. Attorney Byrne
was anpointed U.S. District Court Judae by vrdsident Nixon,
the position he held at the time of the Ellsberg trial.

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iBrading and his old sy friend — ‘
Wo established the "B And B'ca ttle Comnanw.
set ub in Chicago and was presumably
then, "B And 8B," though neither of ‘the two
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or Lugene Hale Brading, finally ends.
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a Country Club, which Pradina had ijoined as one
in January of 196 is one of
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werful force pehind La Costa is Hod “‘Dalitz, one
sky's Single closest associates. IHioe Dalitz had
ader of the early hayfield Road Gang in Cleveland,

re the founder of the actual Cleveland syndicate,

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nost powe yful forces.in the national crime syndicate.

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of Noe Dalitz and lever Lansky, a key "yatering hole" of
the syndicate. La Costa was originally financed) through a

syndicate!

deal with Janes Hoffa of the Teamsters. One of

the Teamsters Union's billion dollar Pension Funds was used.
in the filhancina of the project. La Costa became what is.

known in

ithe Mafia as “open. territory" = meaning that no

Single Magia family controlled it. La Costa ‘Was, open to all.

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Intelligence authorities in southern Californ ia. have long
reqarded Ma Costa as a-nrime handout for the Mafia, Some

officials

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it un at Le

Costa while the President was in San Clemente.
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In February of 1973, while President Nixon was cat San Clem-

ente, H.R

John Dean

«| Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, Richard} Moore, and

lheld a series of meetings at La Costa:to discuss

“the Watergate conspiracy, which was then beqinning to

unravel,

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qave Joangthy testimony during the cryin Committee
yerding "the La Costa meetings." These meetinas
have since emerded as perhanrs the) mest crucial
phone involved in the alleqed cover-un of

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atoraatel the Prosicent's closest aides. Dean testified
that the! “Costa meetings took place over a period of tivo
days, Pobtruary 19 = 12, 1973. Dean testified that the sessions

were heldt

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into Braden 's alleged, role as syndicate courier for
“skinmed"iigam)ling revenue from Las Vegas. Investigator
Noyes was:ltold by several high government officials that
Jim Braden had indeed'theen identified as the personal
courier for Never Lansky, One official disclosed that
Braden was| suspected of taking over $72 million out of
the counthy for the syndicate. Another official said
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Mr. Frank Sturgis

2515 NW. 122nd Street
Miami, FL 33167 ';
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We have received your request under the. Freedom of Infor-

mation Act for information pertaining to you. This is to advise
you that as of 27, September 1975 the ‘Privacy Act of 1974 took
effect. This act and pertinent CIA regulations established ~

- requirements andi procedures for access by individuals to infor-
mation pertaining to them. CIA Regulations were published |
-in the Federal Register on 28 August 1975 and may be found in

Title 32 C.F.R./ 1901.
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sets forth the following requirements for jdentification of

individuals making! requests.
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An individual seeking access to or notification of
the existence) of records about himself shall provide in the
letter of request his full name, address, date and place of
birth together with a notarized statement swearing to or
affirming (his identity!...If such individual is an alien
lawfully admitted for permanent residence, his or her
alien registration number must be also provided.

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Before we'llay begin processing your request, we must receive
from you a notarized statement as explained above. The. statement
should verify that you are a U.S. citizen or an alien! admitted for
permanent residence. It is! also requested that you provide any
additional information concerning yourself which might facilitate
our search of records. Unless you identify specific records you
may be looking. ‘for, we will conduct a search of all Agency records
that might contain information that pertains to you. |.
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if Fy ant, Florida 33167

lr, Gene ‘ilson
Information and Brivacy Coordinator
Central Intellinence! Agency ;
Vashington, D.C. 210505
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Tyr notice of charges :
Dear Mre Tilson: “|

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Before exercising my right to a freedom of {information request for copies
of any and all available ( in accordanéa with the declassification processes
stipulated in Zxecutive Order 11652 and its amendment of January 1974 } files
of recards and documents, beth lcomputerized and manual apposite of me and my
activities under my, present and former names and pseudonyms, L hereby request

the complete and! final estimate of charges for search and duplication services.

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As regards |the ‘charges for these services, tvo matters may be worthy of
consideration. The |first of then is that, given the proper access codes, the

execution of a Computer search'is neither difficult nor costly. And the second
is that in light, of |the controversial nature of my past, a waiver or reduction

of charses may conduce to the furtherance of the public interest. I therefore
respectfully re equest that these factors be considered in the making of a decision.

as to the cost of services.

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In com pliance with your request for identity verification ( pursuant to
provisions of the 1974 © Privacy) Act, section 552, subsections band d)I
hereby swear before a notary public as to my name and former names, my present
eddress, my date as well as Dlace of birth, and my citizenship. Thanking you
for your cooperation, T am | am
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STATE OF FLORIDA a. Gab S
COUNTY OF DADE : ; Frank Sturgis
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Before me personally appeared ; Belceae? Frank Angelo Fiorine
Frank Sturgis |co me welt /known and Frank Angelo Fiorini
known to me to ‘be the person de- , Frank AeFLorinti
: who executed the fore- _. Fran's Anthony Sturgis

scribed in and iw ee ante ;
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going instrument for the! purposes Pant “Stureie

‘therein expressed. | s

on Frank Bonnelli
me | — ‘Frank Campbell
witness my jpand and official seal code named tederini
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this 19th day of May, A D 1976. . me Barbarossa
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cat Large Wd ; in Norfolk, Vae
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My” CHS UST feu ou 1978 United States of American citizen-
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CRONOLOSIC.L 3 1 OF RESIDINCES “I/D ELDPLOYIGNTS OF: Frank Sturgis
aan nresent address:
Wg ; 2515 UW.122nd Street
yee Miami, Florida 33167
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5 - also ‘“morm as: Frank Anthony Sturgis is

: Frank A. Sturgis
i Frank Angelo Fiorini
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al ‘ga cena cveseccesesesesecees 00OTl in Norfolk, Vee :
ascccccccccccscscscccsnssceresided at 510 High Street ? Germantown,
. Philadelphia, Pas
L9L2=1945 .ececesiseiceowcrecccccesacesscensne ele S.Marine Corps Reserve
ie (Paris Ig., $eCo} Pacific theatre)
DLS oc nnccccccccecisuvcccccececccscsscccsssssnonorable discharge ~Klamouth Falla, Ores
L945 cwccccecncecencocscsasccncccocssovsvocsoiiami, Florida ;
Cal 9G5-1L9L3 oa ceddccvccccevccccccccccccevesesiiorfoik, Va. .adrsi Bank Ste, etc.
joined Norfolk Police Dept.
attended ‘illiam and Mary College
also attended Virginia: Polytechnic Institute
on c.1946-employed as manager of the Virginia
- Tavern on East Main Street
a (¢.1949-employed as owner and manager of ;
ion The Whitehorse Tavern on East Hain Street
Co1948. one sesetrenscceccverececeeenseeresseenlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve
‘ RR at the Norfolk Naval Air Station
Cole cencncecdnbseccccevcccvcccccssccccscetonorable discharge
Co19L9-1 ISD ceva tpaeceneveserecsecereerescee sleds Merchant Marine travelling to and fram
. i Europe
Co 1950-1950 re edsliescaccecscscececsceecececUeSe Army = stationed in Germany
Ce 1952 we ceccce oreeeccsereccseversrecesesnonorable discharge
Ce 1952-1954... ovwner-menager of Tophat Nightelub in
Virginia, Beach, Va. ,
Co 1956-19¢LssshbesececeeceeeseeseseceeeeeesCubaCStersa Maestra); Miami, Florida;
Mexico} Venezuela; Costa Rica; Guatemala;
Panama; Honduras; Bahama Ise
1958: contact with CIA at US Consulate-
; Z Santiago, Cuba.
mine 1959: contact with CIA at US Egbassy~
Havana Cuba
1959: contact with FBI HQ - Washington,DC
1961:-1970: Bay of Pigs
; CLA control officer Sam Jenis

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195-1972 eeesceeeeesececeseese omechanic and salesman for the Pan-American; Aluminum Corpe
; 185th St., Miami, Florida

June 17, 1972 seeveccccecccvceseadventure: Yatergate Office Building

June-July 1972eciseccccccoceeeemoved to lashington, D.C. jail

January 8, 1973.4 ecvvocesvesenatergate trial: O.Sevs:G..Gerdon Liddy et al.

anvary 15, 1973 ssseeeeccsseeeplea of guilty entered
celiay 1973 cccccevcccvevccevees moved to Federal ?rison Inst. in Danbury, Conn.
i! then moved to Eglin Air Force Base
ae Exence moved to Dade County Jail

January. 19 Th sconnlesecsceccccesreleased on appeal bond

19h veeccccceccrbebevccevecsessalesman for Heavy Equipment Company, Miami, Florida
1974-1975 wo ncscndveevcecosccccesalesmanager for Dodge Is. Repairs, tami, Florida
1975. cecwcccccoccwsscccecvcecceeSalesmanager for Continental Egg Corpe, Miami, Florida
1974019 73e.ccscechhieeseeececeesalesmanager for ifiami Book Efg. Company

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Dear Mr. Sturgis:

This ackndwledges receipt of your letter, dated 7 May,
requesting access under the Privacy Act for information

pertaining to you.

Act requests. !

We are therefore processing your request: and will provide”

CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505

96 MAY 1976

122nd Street

There. is no charge for processing

you with the results under the Privacy Act as soon as

Sincerely,

Anes

Gene F. Wilson

Information and Privacy Coordinator |

Privacy.

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Miami, Florida 33167

Dear Mr. sturgis: — fo
anil is to acknowledge. receipt by the FBI! on
March 23, 1976, of your Freedom of Information-Privacy
Acts (FOIPA) request dated March 13, 1976.

Based on the limited information you provided, -
it is not possible to make an accurate search of our
records. To insure an accurate search of our records,
please furnish your complete name, date and place of
birth, prior addresses, employments and any specific data

that would permit us to locate the documents you seek.

An exceedingly heavy volume of FOIPA requests
has been received these past few months. Additionally,
court deadlines involving certain historical cases’ -
considerablie scope have been imposed upon the FBI.|’ rbespite
successive jexpansions of our staff responsible for) FOIPA
matters, substantial delays in processing requests| continue.

‘Since January 1, 1975, the FBI has received

a total of 17, 204 FOIPA requests. Of these, our ‘present
backlog is 6, 782. In an effort to deal fairly with. any
request requiring the retrieval, processing and duplication .
of documents,, each request is being handled in chronological
order based on the date of receipt. Please be assured

that your request is being handled as equitably as! possible
and that all documents which can be released will be made
available at the earliest possible date.


Mr. Frank Sturgis
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ments which. may pertain to you, it will be
you to submit your notarized signature.

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individual ts: released only to that person.

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The Honorable ‘Clarence M. ‘Kelley, Director |
Office of. the Director , r
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Thank you for your recent letter in which you requested 1 more i
specific information to help in the search, collection and
duplication) of records indicated in my recent freedom of infor-
mation request. I am sending a chronological sketch of my
residences jand employments prefaced by a list. of names under which :
I have been| known. I hope this profile will aid the. Bureau in-its .
search for my wecords. Notarization of this letter and the ‘Sketch:
will attest to the verification of my identity. He .

Considering. the voluminous ‘quantity of material that may: have
to be read jand screened, I would be pleased in the; ,interest of”
fairness to afford the Justice Department whatever: reasonable.
. extension of time is needed to comply with my freedom of infor~.
mation request. ; i ”

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Thank you for.your kind cooperation.

STATE OF FLORIDA [i
COUNTY OF DADE: ~ ft

‘Very truly yours,

y} “ , Before me personally appeared FRANK STURGE!
: be thi 7 to me well known and known to me. to be the
Ane ae _ + “ person described in and who executed the:

foregoing instrument for the purposes ther
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_ 6th day of May, A.D.,||1976. ve
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‘y _ State’ of.Plorida at- agen 5 PUBLIC STATE OF FLORIDA AT LARGE
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LIEBENGOOD ‘ROUTH | NOTES FROM U. S. V. VECIANA, ET: AL
DATE: December 1, 1976 .

Veciana was represented by Barry L. Garber, '1040 City National
Bank Building, 25 West Flagler Street, Miami, Florida 33130
(305-377-4963)

‘Veciana became implicated as the result ofia drug bust
of one Augustine Barres, a/k/a/ Emidigio Augustine Barres Fangul
("Gus Barres"). The bust resulted from an search warrant of
23 July 73 for Barres' attache case at the Taft) Hotel in New
York. The police were acting on an informant tip to an under-
cover agent who arranged for a buy from Barres of seven kilograms
of Cocaine at the Taft. The police understood that Barres was to
be with a "female" courier. Barres advised DEA task force re-
presentative, Eugene W. Flynn, a detective sgt. with the NYPD,
that he purchased the seven kilos from Antonio Veciana in Miami
on July 21, 1973. i

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Barres owns a4 home in Puerto Rico and travels to New York

every two weeks on business.

A co-defendant of Veciana's in the case was Ariel Pomares
who is the President of Occidental Investment, a real estate
firm owned by Barres, located at 1186 J. T. Pinero Avenue,
Miami. Pomares is also involved with FRECA Imports in Puerto

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Rico. This .is also a Barres enterprise.

The DEA Miami regional office cables that Veciana is the
subject of INS File No. A12-490987 and that he claims to be a
public accountant. i

According to the Miami Herald of July 25, 1973, Barres was
Assistant Secretary of Communications under Castro and later the
general manager of the Havana Health Department. He fled Cuba
in 1961 for asylum in’ Puerto Rico. He became aliUnited States

citizen in 1970.

A cable from Ivan Wurms, the Chief Investigator of the DEA
Task Force to Durkin at DEA headquarters, Washington, states that
Veciana was arrested without incident on 7/24/73 and signed a
"consent to search" form. Miscellaneous papers/and numerous

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‘foreign passports belonging to several subjects were seized.
Swiss bank account deposit slips were seized and are to be
followed by IRS. Veciana claims to be an anti- -Castro fund
raiser. FBI confirms | this.
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A July, 1973 TWIX from DEA in New York to DEA headquarters
Washington (attention: Daniel P. Casey, Acting Chief) referenced
as subject: G1-73-xX093 (presumably Veciana) and| states "during
debriefing of the defendant in New York on July 25, 1973, it was
learned that Antonio Carlos Veciana, 811 North Southwest 30th
Court, Miami is a member of an anti-Castro group: which he has_
stated intends to blow up a number of Cuban properties and/or
embassies in foreign nations, i.e., Spain, Mexico, Peru and France.
Bombings priginally scheduled for july now delayed until August.’

Subpoena of August 14, 1973 exists for a telegram billed to
Veciana at 649-1226 and sent to Barcelona, _ Spain on 5/26/73.

Barres implicates a Paraguyan diplomat formerly assigned
to LaPaz, Bolivia and reassigned to Spain in the drug traffic.
DEA is discretely checking his identity. A follow-up cable
from DEA indicates that they have failed to identify the Paraguyan
diplomat sent to Spain but do indicate that a Pedro P. Medina,
a Paraguyan assigned to LaPaz, is believed to be involved in
Cocaine smuggling. i

Barres admitted that he was responsible for bringing Pomares,
an employee of his, “REO illegal drug activity.

Veci Lana’ ' claimed to be without funds and destitute and was
not fineg. The U. S. Attorney was concerned that he posted a
$100,000 baillimmediately. However, after initial concern being
shown in the file by the U. S. Attorney, the U. |S. Attorney later
writes the Judge that: $80,000 of the $100,000 bond was furnished
by Veciana's cousin, Dr. Pfeblo Zalduendo, a phyéian from Detroit,
Michigan. The remainder of the bail money was ‘furnished by Veciana's
uncle and other family members and friends who cashed insurance
policies, closed children's savings accounts, ete. U. S. Attorney
concluded that Veciana was possibly telling the| truth when he advised
the Court that he was destitute. ;
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Barres says he requested the government to give immunity to

Veciana in order to destroy the traffic of Cocaine from Bolivia.

Barres studied at Columbia Military Academy, in Columbia,
Tennessee /in 1951. .

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A taped transcript of Barres' debriefing by, detectives
Flynn and/Scamardella on July 25, 1973 reveals the following:
Barres got involved in drugs through his friend:/Veciana who was
an officer of the International Development Bank in the U.S.
Embassy in Bolivia. Some people think Veciana is with the CIA
but Barres does not know. Barres dealt with Veciana regarding
an attempt to kill Castro in Chile. He says Vediana did a good
job of transferring everything into Chile (197031971). Barres
gave Veciana $2,000 in support of this assassination effort.
About this time Veciana said that drugs could.be smuggled out of
Bolivia through diplomatic pouch. Barres thought this was how
Veciana had sent weapons into Chile. Barres advised that the head
of Interpol in Bolivia gets a cut of drug money! for protection on
the Bolivian end and that a Secret Service Agent and two Paraguyan
diplomats; were also involved. They handled the! transfer to

Veciana in Miami Beach of the drugs from Bolivia.

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Barres thought that the individual he was selling the drugs

to in New York was a mafia type. It appears this is the indi-

vidual who informed the police. _He is known only as Tony in the

transcript. The police were aware of his identity but did not

desire Barres to discuss it.
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Pomares' counsel, Gustavo Del Toro, urged the DEA in San

Juan at the,time of the arrest of Pomares to consider immunity

for Pomares, because Pomares possessed valuable jinformation re-

garding international narcotic trafficting, including the impli-
cation of diplomats in places such as Bolivia, Paraguay and

Nicaragua. ; , 4

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The |file contains cancelled Veciana checks drawn on the
account of Antonio Sira Veciana at the Fidelity, National Bank,

5880 Byrd Road, Miami, Florida,.in May and June, 1972, for $1,000

each, payable to the. Swiss Bank Corporation fox account EF558230. .

These checks were obtained through subpoena on /Catherine Hune,

' Vice President and Cashier of the Fidelity Natiional Bank in Miami.

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three attempts on his life, but none in 1962 or 1963. The

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first attempt, he sald, occurred in a stadium tn Puerto

‘Rico in 1967 when a bomb exploded approximately 26 meters

away. He said he believed Puerto Rican communist!s were

responsible for this attempt. The second attempt occurred

‘in Bolivia “in approximately 1970 when some men with weapons

appeared at a home where he was supposed to be. He said a

woman who owned the home called him to warn hinm.| He said

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was taking place at that time. The third attemptl, he said,
occurred in Caracas, Venezuela in 1971. He addedl that he had
received information within the past three months that Castro

wanted to kidnap him, 7 i

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an Isobel Zarate began ‘making inquiries about hil An Miami. He -
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A. Relationship between agencies and Warren Commission

L. Warren Comm. staff has never been interviewed in
depth. Many have not been interviewed at all. The
Commission had. particular staff assigned to (a) Cuba
and (b) organized crime. They, especially, should be
fully debriefed about everything that happened in their
contacts with the agencies, their frustrations, unful-'
filled leads, inability to get access, questionmarks,
and what they knew, heard, or suspected about contacts
"at high-level bewween Commission members and top’ agency —
officials. This would include leads to additional
documents, memoranda and people, and is especially
important in the time-frame just before the Commission
issued its report, i.e. as final drafts being written,
when staff learned for the first time about Castro's
threat. (Willens, staff director, said there were staff
pushing hard to re-open this subject, but pressure of
setting the report out prevailed.)

2. Look for all other memoranda of contacts between
McCone and CIA re how to structure questions, etc.

3.: We now know, that Ruby was contacted svereal times

by: FBI to inform on AXGARLZBAXEKIMBXLRXMALLARXAREAX

A" criminal element” in Dallas area. All we've seen
is the cummary memo in which Wargfen Commission was

so’ informed. Get each memorandum of contact between

FBI agents and. Ruby, i.e. underlying materials which
"support" the summary memo.

B. The inter- -agency committee which met to develop

continegney plans” in the wake of Castro's threat.

1. Numerous documents were sought from FBI, CIA,
Defense, State, etc., but never received by Church
Committee before our final report was issued. Must
follow-through , and then go deeper into it.

2. What else was known besides Castro's retaliation
threat? What facts went into the assessment that
Castro might retaliate against U.S. leaders in Latin
America, but not U.S. leaders in the U.S.'? Precisely
what accounted: for the/# original inclusion of
a concern about retaliation in the U.S., but the sub-
sequent deletion of that prospect? Who was responsible
for the deletion, and what impact, if any, did that
have on the later ¢f withholding of info ‘from . the
Warren Commission and on the agencies’ failure to
investigate retaliation?
3. We! must find out exactly who was on this Committee
at each meeting, get all back-up materials, and interview.
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beginning to Learn about how deeply the FBI was apparently
involved in U.S. anti-Castro action. Possibility
here that #KXé this could provide another clue in re
‘PBI! S original reluctance to investigate retaliation
moré/ fully. For instance we now know that FBI had
learned about | CIA' s interest in using organized
critie to kill) Castro long before RFK toldxHaspyx
Hoover about it (Hoover had professed surprise in
1963f, but there's some indication he may have already
known) . One FBI witness even told us that a high FBI
official A had! even proposed the plot idea "in jest".
At la} minimum, 'the paper record shows FBI wasxmentaered
kexpxouxdex@ubanxinketix informed about idea of using
org). |crime figures to provide Cuban intelligence and
that, according to the paper record, FBI recommended
against it. Trafficante has now claimed that FBI agents
came;to him seeking Cuban intellignce. This must be
followed up, agents interviewed, and FBI memo's,etc.,
examined. a

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I always had the impression that Jim Johnston felt
there were more CIA documents which he hadn't seen.
We mist go over the itmes, one by one, with Johnston,
to find out just ‘where we stand on the question of
—_ whether or ¢ not. weve seen everything. Do any of us
¥ really fully understand the entire CIA filing system
so as to know whether we'vey been shown everything, or.
indeed , whether they have even Ag g-ne looking for
, everything.? ‘And how about the field office files,
i.el| IMWAVE files in Miami, New Orleans and Mexico.
Céty'|files, DC: local CIA station files, and FBI field
office files?

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1. A) full assessment of all travel, contacts, relation-
ships, etc. of | all major organized crime figures in
and! around the! time of the assassination of JFK. This
would include a review (with appropriate BxXSaxxxx
system for pritecting privacy interests) of all
microphone surveillance logs on organized crime figures
during key months in 1963, e.g. Fred Black. Trafficante,

BRSSR RE reap i rere err er rpms seme te some |

Rosselli, Giancana, Las Vegas EHELGHGS casinos, etc. oan

(Rosselli waS “uxgyx very defensive in his testimony
about some - comment he says he made on the phone to —
someone upon first learning that JFK had been killed; |

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he indicated that he had been “coming out of a deep
sleep and said:someting about communists did it." of

c arse he now, knows that that call may have been am tapped | .

and, is trying | to explain. No one had ever asked for

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of§ Jack Ruby in the dags around Nov. 22.
records show he made calls to Chicago 0.6. figure
Barney Baker, and Teamster heavy Dusty Miller, plus =
others. Does the explanation for these calls really
wash |: (i.e. Ruby ' s union troubles in re his nightclub).
Has| this whole si suybject been exhausted by Warren
Comm. or not. ITs there more (interviews, etc.) that
should be done here?

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3. Someone should literally live in Miami area for

a month, immerse in the community, get to know the
whole scorecard, (maybe hire a local Spanish-speaking
cop with good local contacts). ¢@ More fully debrief
Trafficante for his version of events and people.
Follow up with icontacts with all the Cubans involved.
Has | ‘Miami pulled all the significant: toll records

for | ime around Rosselli's death (Cubans,
on Cc. ‘figures, garage owner, etc.) and followed up.

4. A full tracking of what happened when Church reports

were, released,| reactions, contacts, concerns, who
were ‘the key figures who actually got the reports and
whp" ‘did they speak to about the gekmkemex contents.

Review our own, mailing records, if exist, da showing who
Local n#=x news me@xx media for leads

asked for reports.

in re reactions’ of the community. Travel records of
G.C. and Cuban; leaders in and around that time,
as in and around time of Rosselli's death.

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on" in New York. Her | desire to cooperate has been engendered
by two events, i.e., Sturgis told the German press of her
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Subject: Review of CIA documents presented the SCI by/Jack Anderson
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The documents recently received by this Committee’, from Jack
Anderson, had previously been reviewed by the Church Committee staff,
The documents appear to be a few of those requested for FOIA review
by David Belin. rt is my understanding, after these documents were
declassified, David Belin furnished copies to both David Martin (AP)
- and Jack Anderson |
The Church Committee was permitted to review the ‘entire Oswald
201 file, the AMLASH file, Garrison files and selected] Office of
. Security files, ‘The Committee primarily concerned itself with the
early period of the investigation(November 1963 - October 1964), as
it believed the! information to be received from this time period
to be more relevant in evaluating the performance of ‘the intelligence
agencies with réspect to their investigation.
Dan Niescher| the Church Committee contact at the CIA, was the
individual responsible for the declassification of documents
relating to the|assassination of President Kennedy. During this
declassification| process, Dan Niescher consulted the Committee staff
to make sure that we were aware of certain documents, In addition,
Mr. Kaleras had given the staff unlimited access to all files we
believed necessary to conduct our investigation.
Yet, the possibility still remains that. the staff’ was not
shown everything, The CIA has maintained throughout that the Oswald
201 file was a.complete compilation of the material related to the
assassination of President Kennedy. However, information relating to
who Lee Harvey Oswald was, and what he was doing are not included.in
their files. The|Oswald 201. does not attempt to question Oswald's
connection with|both pro-Caatro and anti-Castro groups or any of
the AMLASH information. The most notable subject missing was inform-
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By RON LaBRECQUE
-: Marald Staft Writer
Florida’s reputed . organized
crime boss, Santos Trafficante of
Tampa and Miami, made a secret,

’ four-hour October appearance be-

fore the Senate Intelligence Com-
mittee. to answer questions about
his role in a CIA assassination plot,
investigation’ sources have  dis-
closed. :

Trafficante, 62, had not previ-
ously been questioned by the com-

- mittee or its staff in the two-year-

old investigation of CIA activities:
Of the three Mafia figures in-
volved in the early 1960s plot to
kill Cuban Premier Fidel Castro,
only Trafficante is still alive. Both
Sam Giancanu and John Rosselli

were murdered within the last 16

months.
The murders are unsolved.

INVESTIGATORS ALSO said
that Trafficante had dinner with
Rosselli at The Landings, a Fort
Lauderdale restaurant, in mid-July,

- less than two weeks before Rossel-

li disappeared. Rosselli’s body,
stuffed in.an oil drum, floated to
the surface of Dumfoundling Bay
the first week of August.
Trafficante reportedly has told
police that the July dinner with
Rosselli + as well as several other
meetings previously at the Cordoba
Restaurant in Miami. fermerly
owned by the husband of Rosselli’s
niece, according to police — were

“friendly, social events with no

business,” .

Investigators in recent weeks’
_ have centered their efforts on trac-

ing the "associates a of Traffi-

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John Rosselli
eee dined with Trafficante

years has maintained a home at
740 NE 155th St. in North Dade,
could not be reached for comment.
Trafficante was identified as the
head of a South Florida Mafia fam-

‘ily in testimony in 1963 before a
US. Senate subcommittee.» ©. |

His ATTORNEY, Henry Gonza-
lez of Tampa, ‘who accompanied
Trafficante when he went to
Washington, according to sources,
would not comment on either. the
Senate appearance or Trafficante’s
past activities. When first asked

-about the Senate: appearance, he

said. “You realize you're treading

rafficante had not been ques-
tioned previously by the committee
because his role in the plot -had

jdered “secondary.” .
Interest was ren
after Rosselli’s death. Investigators

A committee source said. that |.

‘sought to determine whether the

murders of the two men were con-
nected in any way. with their testi-
mony or potential - testimony before.

_ the committee.

GIANCANA, WHO was a Mafia:
boss in Chicago for many years,
was killed in June 1975. at the
same time Senate investigators

' were preparing to contact him. The
-gun used to kill Giancana, found .
‘discarded on a roadside several

miles from Giancana’s house- a
month after the murder. was
traced to a Miami gunshop, but the .

. trail stopped’ there.

Investigators said the gun was
part of a shipment purchased in
1965 by the Tamiami Gun Shop,
but there are no records to indicate
where it went from there, accord-
ing to investigators and gunshop
owners.

Rosselli, whose most powerful
Mafia days were reportedly in the
1950s and early 1960s in Las Vegas
and Los Angeles, did appear before
the committee at least three times
in the 12 months before his death..

In’ Washington, the committee
has kept a tight clamp on comment
about the investigation, and only
one member, Robert T. Stafford
(R., Vt.), acknowledged the Traffi-
cante session, saying “I was not
present when the witness you
speak of was in front of the com-
mnittee.”

- Sen. Daniel Inouye (D., Hawaii),
the: _committee chairman who,
along with Sen. Howard Baker (R.,
-Tenn.}) pressured for Justice De-
partment and FBI involvement in
the Rosselli murder case, said “I
have never met Mr. Trafficante.
That's as far as lil go.”

. 4 PRIME interest of the commit-
tee has been possible links between

_the CIA Castro plotting and the as

sassination of John F. Kennedy.
Revelations of the Senate commits
tee were a key factor in the erre
ation of the new House of Repre-
sentative investigation, which is

‘taking a new look at the JFE mitre

er.

Trafficante reportedly has told

investigators that he first met Rose
selli about 1956. It was in the early
1950s that Florida law- enforce»
ment officials estimated that a Boe
lita opertion run by Trafficante and
his brother netted $2 million annu-
ally.

Trafficante was a major guite
bling figure in pre-Castro Havana,
where he ran a casino. In 1959, it
was estimated that $1 million or $2
million was bet nightly in ali the
Mafia-run casinos in Havana. The
gambling stopped when Castro
took over in 1959.

Rosselli was. the first of the
three Mafia figures to be recruited

y the CIA in 1960 in its plot t to as
sassinate Castro.

IN A CIA: memo quoted in ave inte

terim report of the committee @'

year ago, it was said that Traffi-
cante’s role was to “serve a$ a coue
rier to Cuba and make arranges
ments there.”

_ Rosselli told his CIA llaison that
“Trafficante believed a

leading figure in the Cuban exile
movement might be able to accome
plish the assassination.” An intete
nal CIA ‘investigation in 1967 “suge
gests that this Cuban may have
been receiving funds from Traffie
cante and other racketeers intereste
ed in securing ‘gambling, prostitne
tion and dope monopolies’ in Cuba
after the overthrow of Castro.”

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6 Attempts to Kill Castro Laid to CIA.

By Juck Anderson

Locked in the darkest re-
cesses of the Central Intelll-
gence Agency is the story of
six assassination attempts
against Cuba's Fidel Castro.

For 10 years, only a few key
people have known the terrtl-

‘|ble secret. They have sworn
never to talk. Yet we have
learned the details. from
sources whose credentials are
beyond question.

We spoke to John McCone,
who headed the CIA at the
time of the assassination at-
tempts. He acknowledged the
idea had becn discussed inside
the CIA but insisted it had
heen “rejected Immedi-
ately.” He vigorously denied

-ithat the CIA had ever partlicl-
pated in any plot on Castro’s
iife. Asked whether the at-

‘ltempts could. have been made
with his knowledge, he re-
plied: “It could not have hap-

pened.”
! We have complete confi
‘|dence, however, in our
sources.

The plot to knock off Castro
‘began ag part of the Bay of
Plas operation The intent was
to eliminate the Cuban dicta-

\fur before the mils ihvad-

ers landed on the island. Their
arrival was expected to touch
off a general uprising, which
the Communist militia woul
have had more trouble: putting
down without’ the charismatic
Castro to lead them. boy,

After the first attempt
failed, five more assassination

teams were sent to Cuba. The
last team reportedly made it
to a rooftop within shooting
distance of Castro before they
were apprehended. This hap-
pened around the last| of/Feb-
ruary or first of March, 1963.
Nine months’ later; Prest-
dent Kennedy was |gunned
down in Dallas by Lee|Harvey
Oswald, a fanatic who |'pre-
viously had agitated for Cas-
tro in New Orleans and had
made a mysterious trip to the
Cuban Embassy in | Mexico
City. |
Among those privy| to, the
CIA conspiracy, there is still a
nagging suspicion--unsup-|m
ported by the Warren Com-
mission's findings—that Cas-
tro, became aware of the/ U.S.
plot upon his life anit some
how recrulted Oswald to ietale!

THE WASHINGTON POST

jiale against President Ken-
nedy. ;

To selup the Castro assassi-
nation, the CIA enlisted Rob:
ert. Maheu, a former “FBI
agen 1 shadowy contacts,
who had handled other under-
cover assignments for the CIA
out of his Washington public
relations office. He later
moved to Las Vegas to head
up billionaire Howard Hughes’
Nevada operations.

Maheu recrulted John Ro-
selli, a sruggedly handsome
gambler with contacts fa both
the American: and Cuban un-
derworlds, to arrange the as
sassination. The dapper, hawk-
faced Roselll, formerly mar-
ried to movie actress June
Lang, was a power In the
movie industry until his con-
viction with racketeer: Willle
Bioff in a million-dollar Holly-
wood labor shakedown. The
CIA assigned two of its most
trusted operatives, William
Harvey and James (Big Jim)
O'Connell, to the hush-hush

murder mission. Using phony
names, they accompanied Fo-
selli on trips to Miami ta line
up the assassination teams.

The full story reads \ike the'm
stript of » James Bond movie,

Meniday, J dan, 18, 1971

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cree with secret trysts at
glittering Miami Beach hotels
and imidatght powerboat

dashes 'o secret Janding spats -

freee sets

on the Cuban coast. Once, Fto- :

sellt's boat was shot out from
under him.

For the first try, the CIA:
furnished Roselli with special:

poison capsules to silp into’
Castro's food. The poison wns
supposed to take three days to
act. By the time Castro died,
his system would throw off all
traces of the polson, go he
would appear to be the victim
of a natural if mysterious ail-

Cubaln, related to oné of Cas-
tro’, 8 | lchetfs, to plant the deadly
pellets in the dictator's food.

arranged with a.

“e nN wae

On March 13, 1961, Rosell de-

livered the capsules to his con-

tact| at Miami Beach's glamor-
ous| Fontainebleau Hotel.

A couple of weeks later, just
about the right time for the
plot | to have been carried out
a report out of Havana sald
Castro war JIL But he re
covered pefore the Bay of Py:
invasion on April 17, 1981.

Four more attempts vf e

made on Castro's Ile,

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to say. He promised me, however, that he would give me

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‘this would give | the poison time to work its way out of Ca
he died, and his death would

Roselli. never found 1 ou

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they tried again, later with

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reached them that Castro was s desperately ith.

illness was caused by the poison ora virus,

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i| The Calculated Rise

And Abrupt Descent

ny Roselli.

| : lives in a sprawling white home that
: . | ~ “at first glance, resembles every othe:
: : | __, house in the neighborhood.

. Until last month, Johnny: Roselli -.-. But it is different: the carefully cur
‘lived comfortably with:his sister and § tained‘ windows, the extra lock on th
'.. brother-in-law in a, Miami suburb. 'A “front door, and spotlights on all side
.. friend estimated be earned about $23,- _of-the house give it the look of a subu:

- 000 annually from tae B he aoa tee Inside, the furniture i

owne e lobby ©: Vegas Fron- ~pale blue Mediterranean, the carpet i
tier Hotel. oo" a — thick white. oO mp

@ shrugged last year. when his at- Roselli’s killers did not ambush th
torney suggested he hire a bodyguard, - house; Roselli went to them. He lef

after the murder of Chicago mobster ~ Plantation at 1 p.m. on July 28 wearin
Sam Giancana, his partner in CIA plots . a golf shirt, his golf clubs in his ca
trunk. He told his sister he would b

_ to kill Fidel Castro. if anybody wants -
- ’ to kill me at my age, the 71-year-old Ro- © home for dinner. That afternoon ©
-., selli said, what difference | does ‘it’, evening he was killed, probably by su
_* make? So he played golf several timés - -focation, perhaps after being torture
‘a week, sipped white wine with din- -* amearly reports said his legs were br:
ner, and—until somebody decided.” Ken.. Heavily chained, Roselli we
Johnny Roselli should wind up in an stuffed in a §5-gallon. oildrum an
oil barre! in Miami's Dumfoundling . dumped into the ocean. an
Bay—considered employment in the - His brother-in-law found Roselli’s si
_. mew gambling casinos beginning 'to 3yer-colored 1975 Chevrolet Impala se*
* open in the oil-rich Middle East. - <j -.~ eral days later, parked at the Miami i
ee Ot “jj. ‘ternational Airport, |
eee = i!" Ten days after Roselli's disappea
* In‘the late 1920s Al Capone and his . ‘ance something went wrong. The o
. friends chose Miami as:the chic spot drum that was meant to keep his deat
' for organized crime figures to buy, -. a secret floated to the surface of Dun

ey By Rudy Maza

1

winter home. Just across a strip,of »’ foundling Bay, buoyed by the gases ¢
_ ean. was Cuba, 2 gaming ant ein the holes im the side of the
we . The mobsters from the nomin -— e holes in the side of the dru:
‘ yee treated like visiting icty, while _and the placing of his Chevrolet at th
- by Florida press and ‘society, while airport convinced investigators b.
some members of the local police force... eopee was meant never to be disco’
" item ce a taste for the finer ered: history was supposed to. recor
; gsin ite. to a that dapper Johnny Roselli, facing 4:
“Tn the’ 1940s the sheriff of Dade: « portation proceedings that the gover:
“County (which includes most of the Mi: ment had threatened off and on fc
~ qmi aréa) admitted to the Kefauverior-..” years, decided to disappear on an ai
- ganized crime committee that; since = plane flight to who-knows-where. ‘
he had become sheriff on an annual ty me!
salary of $12,000 five years earlier;his ua a er a:
personal fortune had increased from..«', “Cutting up and disposing of bodi
4; $2,500 to $70,000. One of the sheriff's} not necessarily new to our depat
' deputies: said. he collected $50,000) in “ment,” says the man who is directir
' bribes in nine months spent as a bag-.. the search for Roselli’s killers. Lt. Ga
man for:-Miami Beach gambling con- - Minn tde head of the Dade se
cessions. In 1 ‘e oniieg. homicide squad, is a well-muscled mi
ton in 1988 eed 826 million It . , with an aquiline nose that separates
waste Kind ot pace inst made ark. Ben ya of nis bare offie as
rfeelathome. * -)' : e ; e ‘
‘ For the last two years, Johnny |Ro- ard tant DYNAMITE—DON
selli felt at home j j ee 8 .
room suburb north o it at! Ro- ”” He and another police officer 1
“selli made ‘his retirement haven||be- . _vount the solving of some of Dar
cause he had family there. His brother. County's more brutal’ murders wi
indaw, a government missile expert, See ROSELLI, LA, Col. 1


i

ROSELLI, Frémn Lil

‘ the enthusiasm of two football players .

‘recalling their favorite bow! games.

The headless, handless body that
floated into a Miamijcanal, last month
reminded Minnium of that other, simi-
larly mutilated body that timed up
last December. And who. can forget
the man who got angry ' with his room-
mate, s
parts along a highway? "|. |

As it turned out, Roselli’s

wasn't the -

i first body to float into the annals of Mi-

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ami crime in a drum, Minnium says.
Ten years ago a lovers’ quarrel re-
sulted in a man stuffing ‘his girl friend

into a drum; filling it! with cement and .

Aqua Velva shave lotion. The drum
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see |
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oO work-a-day, .

a velvety
junior jump! $58.

A be-devillng shimmer-giimmer
you, set for champagne or a great

beat! One-piece cotton velveteen, ready
to layer black or ‘brown; 5-13, Gome in,
vjrite orphone... ,

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sliced him up and, tossed the

dq - wt
il
was found resting against a dike and
justice jwas eventually done.
; Minnium is not Pleased by such vio-
lent antics,

“We | don't- appreciate people com-
mitting murder and dumping a body

- in ‘our jcounty, regardless of who the

people are, but especially if it’s organ-

~ ized crime," Minnium says.
His \department handled 168 homt- |

cides: last year and boasted an -85 per
cent | ‘clearance record.” As of July,
1976, the Percentage was even higher,
standing at about 92 per cent.

If Charlies Zatrepalek and Julio

. Ojeda |have anything to say about it, °
Roselli’ killing is not going to dimin.’

ish: those percentages. Both men are

28-year. -old homicide detectives who
a

- Roselli’s|

vow with a schoolboy’s Sincerity tha
they won't rest until Roselli’s murder
is solvéd. In the last four weeks, with
the help of Washington agencies, Za.

. trepaiek and Ojeda have reconstructed

Roselli's life in hopes of understanding
his death, For the third time in eight
years “of marriage, Zatrepalek worked
out of town on his wedding anniversa-
Ty; because of the “awesomeness” of
this case, Ojeda spent his Labor Day
holidaylat work.

“Maybe 10 years from now,” Ojeda
says, | want someone to look at my
file and say, ‘Hey, he talked to every-
body.’ lAnd maybe he'll hear some.
thing and BANG! that’s the arrest!”

That Johnny Rosell : was destined to
walk on the dark side of life never
/ seemediin doubt. As a teen-ager in Bos-
ton, when his name was Filippo Sacco,
Roselli was a runner for the numbers
racket. He helped his stepfather burn
down his home for the insurance mon-
ey. He was arrested at age 22 for steal-
ing about $25 from someone. Then he
changed his name and left for Chica-
go.

It would be 40 years until, in the late
1960s, Johnny Roselli would see his
mother|again, though he sent money
to his family through an intermediary
in Chicago so his sisters could attend
college.

By the late 1920s Al Capone was well
established in Chicago. Newspaper-
men, politicians and cops were on the
Capone payroll and a young man with

_ Roselli’sstreet savvy had little trouble
” finding Suitable employment; he hired

on as ajlrumrunner with the Capone
gang. At age 26 Roselli was arrested

. for selling morphine to an undercover

agent. He was acquitted because, after
jarrest, no one could seem to
find thelarresting officer or informant -
in the case, They still haven't been
found.
In the} mid-1930s Roselli, by now a

” mature and charming man, lucky with
tire qe charming ma

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"In the 1940s the sheriff of Dade| County (which |

includes most of the Miami area) admitted to the

- Hollywood to imake pictures of prison
"and gangster life. But publicity about a

Kefauver organized crime committee that, since

he had become sheriff on an annual salary: of

$12,000 five years; earlier, his: ‘personal fortune
had increased from $2, 300 to, ‘$70,000.’ .

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women, friendly with men of motley,
moved to Los Angeles. He wore hand-
tailored suits and, by all accounts, Was
‘easygoing, mild-mannered. He (was
married for a time to an actress, but
they had no children. He became a
close friend of Harry Cohn, the! legend.
ary head of Columbia Pictures. iThe
two men sometimes vacationed to-
gether and Roselli always seemed to
know how to place a bet should Cohn
care to wager on a horse.

According to Bob Thomas’ ‘piogra-
phy of Cohn, “King Cohn,” the movie
mogul once offered Roselli-a job ; as a
producer. (In his book, Thomas’ dis-
guised Roselli’s identity at Roselli’s re-
quest.)

“What would you pay me?” Roselli .

asked Cohn.-
“Five hundred - dollars a
Cohn said. ;
' “TP get that much from waitresses
who take bets for me,” Roselli i is said to
have replied. }
Besides being a handy man wth
placing of bets, Roselli purchased | ‘26
per cent interest in ‘a Tijuanalira ce-
track with $25,000 Cohn loanéd him.
Roselli paid him back promptly(an

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terest check.

Roselli bought twin star rubies, had:

them set inijrings and gave one to
Cohn, who considered it a good luck
charm until his death. Once, when Chi-

- cago mobster Willie Bioff moved to

Hollywood and began making life mi-

serable for movie studios by shaking. .

down executives in return for labor
peace, Roselli stepped in and saved

- Cohn from a lengthy strike.

When Cohn refused to pay tribute to
Bioff and his union, Bioff tried to halt

production at Columbia by calling a.

sudden strike, Desperate, Cohn called
Roselli who marched into Bioff’s office
and: confronted the hoodlum who sat

‘. behind his desk wearing a hat and

coat, chomping on a cigar, a gun rest-
ing on the desk in front-of him. :
“Listen, Willie, I don’t know what
you're trying to prove but it isn’t going
“This is a

get it settled.” a)
Bioff backed’ ‘down and called off his:
pickets. After ‘he was sent to jail for ex-

tortion, Bioft cut a deal with the gov-

_ ernment and named Roselli ag a Chi-

cago mobster who had helped ‘him
shake down movie studios. Cohn testi-
fied on Roselli’ 8 behalf, but in 1943 Ro-

’selli was sentenced to 10 years in pris-

on. When helgot out he returned to

* secret appearance before the Kefau-

ver crime committee ruined his rela-
tionship with most studios. Even Cohn

re fused to hire him—"The stockhold-
“,ers would scalp me,” Cohn told a bitter
. Roselli, |:

It was during his years in the. Los

. Angeles and Las Vegas areas that Ro-

selli met the'lman who would make
him a household name later in. life.
Robert Maheu! the ex-FBI agent who -
parlayed a Washington private eye
business into a stormy career as How-
ard Hughes’ man in Las Vegas, ap- _
proached Roselli on behalf of the CIA

"in 1960.

(Anothér person Roselli mét in that
era who would later surface to talk of
Roselli, Giancana and John F. Ken-
nedy was a young party girl named Ju-
dith Campbell.)

Maheu and Roselli would later tell

.Frank Church's Senate Intelligence

Committee theldetails of their plots to
kill Castro. Maheu told investigators he
had known Roselli since the late 1950s
and, while he didn’t know of his. un-
derworld connections, “it was cer-~
tainly evident to me that (Roselli) was
able to accomplish ‘things in Las Vegas
when nobody else seemed to get the
same kind of attention. ms

Over dinner at the Brown Derby in

, Beverly Hills 16 years ago, Maheu ex-

plained to Roselli that his government
needed his services. Roselli, who was
born on July 4, 1905, was nothing if not
patriotic. (Sam) Giancana once said,

~ “Just wave a flag. and Johnny’ll follow

you to any canal.”). Maheu recalled that
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and. —_counterclo
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Fidel Castro in
Sam Giancana in
President John
Kennedy _in
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and the Flor
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prevent prosecution, but Roselli was

convicted of violating interstate gam- .

bling laws. He went to jail, returning

in 1974 to Plantation to do battle ©
against government efforts to deport ,

him: . ;
In 1971 the CIA asked the Immigra-

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“forestall public disclosure of Roselli’s
past operational activity with the CIA”
that might‘éecur if;deportation pro-

‘ceedings were pursued. The INS

agreed to keep the ‘CIA informed, but
at his death; Roselli and his lawyers
were still fighting deportation.

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* “Bob

said another of Roselli’s brothers-in-

- law, Peter.Cardillo of New Jersey." __.

The public doesn’t: know what Ma-
heu is thinking,-whether he worries if
pro-Castro Cubans are exacting retri-
bution for sins of 16 years ago. Maheu’s
secretary in Las Vegas says she doesn't
know where her boss is or when he'll
be returning to his office. He report-
edly has some business interest in
Egypt, a part of the world that seems

__:to hold some fascination for the Castro
plotters; Giancana kept an apartment

‘in Beirut and, just before his death,
‘told a friend he had some sort of deal

petnettcecnecen ic eM euer toe MAREN OIA, CaN Renee mee

eu must be running scared -
~I thought about that -just- the other. -
day: ‘Jesus; what's Maheu thinking?’ ” —

brewing there. And Roselli longingly
eyed the opening of gambling casinos
in the land of the new oil millionaires.
In Tampa, San icante, an-
other of the original Mabe up, also;
refuses to talk with the press. But un

like the others, he did not testify be-

fore the Church committee so the pub-
lic has no inkling of his thoughts on

the Castro assassination attempts... ..

- Whether Roselli’s killing was one of
retribution for a public or a private
matter, Johnny Roselli was a testa-
ment to an era that has passed. His life,
which would have remained largely
unnoticed save for the Senate’s CIA
hearings, seemed straight from the
pages of a Mafia novel: allegedly
brought into the United States illegally
at the turn of the century, Roselli
clawed his way from the mean streets
of Boston and Chicago to the relative
glamor of Hollywood, Las Vegas and,
finally, Miami. Along the way, a simple
strain of patriotism—which impressed
the CIA enough to mention it to the

+ The Chicago Daily News. AP.---

Church committee—put him in a rope

dancer’s position of sometimes receiv-

" ing, sometimes taking advantage of his

knowledge of the darkest side of ‘gov-
ernment. oo . .

” While some have speculated that he
was killed for talking too much to gov-
ernment investigators, Roselli was
hardly a loudmouth in the league of a

Joe Valachi, who sang for televised ;
Senate hearings on the Mafia in 1963.-~"-~

Fourteen years ago Roselli confided in
his lawyer, Washington attorney Ed-
ward Morgan, that he had been told by
Cuban sources in Miami that Joho
‘Kennedy's killing was ordered and ar-
ranged by Castro, but he lived with his
secret. So

The day after Roselli’s body was
scooped from its crude coffin. his
brother-in-law in New Jersey, Peter

’ Cardillo, told me: “Down deep, in a

way, I probably hope it was connected
with (the Castro affair). At least then
Johnny, he would have died for a
cause.”

s

ey ROT at
rey .

bau ew oO. vos 7
t . Heeale Fea tereee |

”

wot
i Sen. Gary H art ©, Gols.) inade. an ‘ubsanounced . tripe 10°

aa Rr
“By RONAs BRECQUE :

Rifas ”
nj Friday for a private meeting with homicide detectives to 7a

underscore the strong. inte

test. of the Senate Sclect Intelli igenoe,: _

_ Comunittee in abe J oh
AN, Rost Hi mirder inv
i vest on
. that federal age nefes cooperate vith local 7 seate and to insure

* General Edward Levi iaher pressure. irom the

: , | “We're not here to-balve said, .
e the crishe,” H
‘find out ¢f there Js any connection betwe #3 Rol ‘) deat ane

. _ his testimony, ’ pefore. the.¢

HARE SAID he ‘ated”
“ho | :
- “BS ie local Afficiais of the. to?
minipr
cg See a a8 Newnan
: Res vIH, 71, argenized er .
. ure who testified three ee Be
fore the Senate Intelligence. Com-;
. ml tee in the past wear zbout, his,
rultment by the CLA ine plot to
Rill Pesel Crsua, wes found fesd.
veeks 7b. stuffed in anor,
in Dumleundling

om mitten t)

* ae ee it tear that “the “atbhed
ater che tlee ig” co sovrned.
claih is ¢

ns, sith

rected No hig testimor, -»
gh he did say there yes, es
ae evidence’ indicating. * Roselli” ee
mig ht have tea killed to, PIEVERT.:
him rere talking 2dout other Cla, :
OV nist o crime pacts. A
. 3 Know of no plang what oy
im come “ha oh,” Hart
S$ nol ic say we warldats
ait arg te aidan’ :
; un ia bs wee
tae eels oe iB ck it some Wears

“Bat a

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i selligence Committee jaterest jo the

penis, af Chicsgo orgenized, grime.

-

* teader Sam (iiome) Gisncéna, Gee
L ‘encsria wes’ shot i death id, nis?
dust. ata!

P ame wien Intelligence: Committed ¢
yr investigatgrs were ‘aracking: him.
1 Gown ry
 Recémpansing Hart Friday “wae?
yidithseh Madigan, 2° commirtee”at=4
1 tong whe in June of 1975, wes |

paring to. interview Giancena *
about hit involvement. vith, Roser’ a
ft ” ot a

“fn the Castro plow”:
:Giahtana and Fampa -Gigenized -
“aime - figure Santo ~Trafficante |
“played “acepmp panylng yoles":.i0,
the ChA-inspired Casio “exsessinae--
sher committee Hatt

tion: plot, ant
prmember uyaveling. with Hart. said . -

a

ad

' Pricey, a NE! AY,

_g: Th! TALE Ese aieo. jonside
yered” i gybpensing Trefficante, the

dgalor sais. Sut Traffi-..

pant daeeeti
& neve! called because the

Cante WE
3 Gogimittee gonsicered. Rosji's, tese

; Ummony abe mest importants.
E Be. rel et cred ?
CHICAGO. AREA"
apc }ased thsi Gi
bs a “‘part_of 20 interpal
i struggle.

: Nex erineless, Hart whe The ‘Bere
‘ ald iPriday (that * with “Rosell's »
' degih, “troudling guestions™ pbout <
: Ginncans’§, ‘ynutder Unger. “The co-*
incidenres bt Ein “tO sizing them:

i selves dogetbere” sogaig the 3972:
Lopresti “dential cainpaign pans ger tors

George RiecGoverm.: (Ca
| ; Aghed pe was. spuintied el a:
inverug atts:

- Inv estigstors?
lancana’s: deaine
gangland?

oe

tthe conciusions Of
that Glangens’s death wes moi can?

| necied 19 his

fare the ° “gommittet,, arn’ said:

rating ‘évidence “which prevents
toon 10 Fane 28 Sel . .

arenes aa *

geetential estiinony. -

Ve
at is the’ abrence of aa corros"

enw

Madigan. ssid the vwidesp

parts. after Glencana’s death that

ds appenrent before the cominite 1
ites ras ind at were not ire.
{That further indicates, Be bEreed, ¢
that Giancane’s #eaib was ‘pot. act
“rectly. related ‘Ris: Pate ClA asso: 7 ?
ialationy on ‘

: ‘ee

: Free HME ; -
iy SWE FINALLY: dor Gastanty
Rome pvinber ibe. dey her wie
Siete Madigan. said Friday."We“,
bad 5 ere; digculty tracking Rim
owen” in Houston (where Glanésna ©
'. Had been |in the bespitel) Te had - |
. bded ‘decided thst 1 was Boing to.
interview Thim- td zee. whether ditt ‘
' qrould be worth it to call him asia |
wwiiness,. He ed pot re contkcted |;
. get and he hed to Reta Subp.
_ aed” Bed! gap seid wale 4
2 Re Lo ted heen schpes ‘
an of the first time i
er Giancana was shot. |
Uttes was headed by: i
Sea, Bank Ch ch. and bes since
heen replicadiby a sewly formed
7 ‘commaitles |hepied by Sen. Danial
th

vere

‘Inctya (D4 Hawall) and Sen. How+
“erd Raker'(R, Tenn.): tn its fing] -
of report, | that/? former.’ committee :
tt * strongly urged the new committee’
o continue “the lnveztlgstion of ee! .
ert CLA neti tivity 2s weil as cone)
tong between the Cestro RESES= |
oo plot and the estassing on of:

SID AY ize .
eared questions about
a als maives Pate uF
ing-to the go-call |
i hh bory™ — thet Carzo 7!
Oy gents bed. SEK,
ig the CLA, attempts |

4
"Hart fotemiewed ‘Rbsell twied |
8-2 5G saber Of the former - hae a
‘salttee and he is glo a ember of 4
the sew!) Intelligence Cominittee, 1 ‘|

i “Rosell was very esedid Dut he-g’
hd” noth reludicer, ialdrmation,’ tet,
; ert pads es Loe (gk eS et

i Commilttas investigators sais .Avukiead

Sees ‘they Heve found 50 fink be~

--qween Rosell end Eugene M. Car

sofa, me Rockville; Mé:, pantique 230. st

: “dealer , with . ‘reported organized” ‘

“rime fopnections who died under
z P edreurssiantes | mysteriously coin!
P deatel te Roselle deste wae
we “Carcede, ‘37, Bas teported - <

“ang by hig wile on July 2B, the
Tteame day Roisll was bat sen byS
. yds deter tt Fi ee 5»

We had Eved fort pee Ye

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“tes Jslend on Aug. 4. bla yes

_ welgnted by two. US-pound: boat ou:

' ? “pestea’s body Honted 5 the ture >

a
faca of New York Harber. off Stae | |

a

wreoped fa & pndlocked chal and |

snchnrs, Fotlce avid te dad been . |
strangled, Roselit | Ted been asphy ‘Re ‘
lated, porethly ‘by strangling, ace ~
core Hag to nverticators heré, -. +
New York. City dettelives paid. |
‘thal: “Caratia “knew Glancana”™ but»
vthey have fot beea able :to. Plas:
- down ga motive in his death.” .
: ’ Jhe Washington Stor, quoting an’ 4
“unidentified ‘FBI source, reported'*
* thak. Carafic had met with Roselli’ “y-
s oy Chleago apout two monthergoe * 7


Bye RON La jaeneceue

betas Bat Mey nee |

5 . . i Tose t,

ia ‘Sen “Gant Hart 'D. Cold, made. an ‘uns anoun ed
* é . ti

_BMiami Friday for a private meeting with homicide punced ip ve.

= Corminitiee the strong: ini efest! of the Senate Select Intelpeace,; a

., Committee inthe John FR Roselli miGrder inv t
“, that federal agencies coopersté’ with local. eee ane to insure .
The FBI was ordered: “Srito™ the ‘case: last] week by oméy,,
General Edward Levi after’ pressure. from the Senate committee, :
: cc . We're not here te. solve the’ crime,” Hart sald, “we want to”
‘find out 4f there Js any connection belween Rose ») death 3 and
‘ _ his fe eétimony. ’ before. the: Comeniitesce) 3 ai

1.95. Rate
HART said ne piso: hop: ed. fa gia
“meet with local Sfficials of the FBG od] a
“and einmigration: aad Na rurale] co OE OO
¢ Won Serve, at le fe - ad may i
17 Reseln, 71, orgenized erie $ fig= ‘ ge
. Ure Who testified three times bee a2 so.
tere. the Senate Intelligences Come, 0 yy .
. _tnittee in the psst wear zbout” "nist! Pe,
ecruftment by the CLA ia @ jot tot’ . os
i WF:de} Cesta, was found sesd | . , : :
two weske geo, stulfed in ao. sik, 7 re ae oe
. Sram fos sting in Dumfoundling | _ o
. _ Bre. te .
a! Harting reget ‘Fisk Ghat the igtel-} Bo sae
“Nrence Comimitice Js* eg pacerned: re aa
aut the possibility that R Loselir ss! eee tl ee
étaih Is coanscted to his testimon: en OG
ny, atthovgh he' gid eg y there es, i ed ee
ne evidente? Sspeleatng “Romi. 600 ve
might have be€A Rilled to. prevents; eT
him froro talk} ng Bbout pibey, AS Wore _
ao Grpenized crime pas.” ; Ay
2D know of no plang sthais
tb heve Vim come ba ok” Hart bed:
veel thet’ § NOL 1G sah we woulda
‘Lave called hire back af some [et s
“facts arose lly ee. eee ” rei
“But it would be reaching te fay
we hed sume indication slr he had. ot
(ner. vet tecufied. sho) evidence” ae
spe or fant is BRS Meresaidss 8

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who,
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£ feader, 2SaTa (tomo) Giencany Gre
re& t f% ta qt

Vanesnay wes shot td th ne

tee?
¥ ame when Intelligesce Commi
ninvestigaigrs Were “aracking’ hin:

‘ BOR ie | Hart Friday “was?
h fienaéh Madigan, 2 a commiree™ atet
F Comey, who, in June of 1975, wes |
eparing 10 - interview - .Gianeaha”
““about his involvement; with Rosetil” 2
: jn thé Cadiro plot.
-Giantana pnd Fam
Tecime-, figure.
played

t

Gipenlzed -
Santo PaO Prcapte™
“secompanying roles"y.i0 ,

The CiA-lnspired Castro “espessina-s
Pusan: pet another committee Biatl .

Lem aryaveling, Mith Hart said,
e FLiGSN. ee NT eae

The t& spamitiee bed 210. " conside
fing Trefficente. the -
atigaior Said. but Salle
i nite wea never caved because Wey
vo aha gonside ed. Roselli §tes- :

taimony’ the most importants. “yd fg

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~ 7 oO. “AREA ™ > jaw estige ora
“CHICAG are!

‘eopclused that .Giancan
»wSs part of a0" internal -g
istruggle. * : .
nae er erineless. Hart he tne ‘Her
Heid Friday that” with Rose's #
death, “troubling avestions”™ eb2ut -
“Giencane’g mutder ringer. “The cor *
 Sncidences*t tepin fo siring | Meme :
taclves sogetheres sshd the S872,
! ore : dential geimprign manager fore

ror e MeGoverm. faa 07 ”
{ eed if pe was. eotis tied I wh:
tthe co anelusions “of Inve PELE ERI OTS
that Giaccens’s death war noi can-*

gangland *

te

inected vo his gwiential tact: nenys .

Vhefore the: seornmittee, Hart said

ms _s Ythere ig the’ abrence of anf correo"

* poratine. ‘Evidence. | “which Prevents’

Tem fo Page: “SB ca. < cel, :

ans een te -

oo aren: tA aie bee +
or ~ .
: . ae ~

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+t were not. true.’

cates, Ke bgrees., | ¢

becdy. related | to! fae pinks cA, asso

SH
[oe FINALLY: “he chaotant
rae ‘nUimber che. day “hey sel)
Siled” Madigan. said | day Ve™.
: od setae difficulty tracking fim
Yown in Houston Gvbsre Glantana

'. Shad bara] in the bespitel) It bad -
» dted ‘decided | thet I was going R

jnterview | him” tg zee. witiher it*

' would be worth Ut to call & him aga |

witoess, He ed not beea contacted. j
yet and he. hes tot been subs |
need," hedigan seid, & |
2 Rotel, isbo had Besn ne 7
wnaed, did test ify for the First] tina |
four days ef fier Giancarg seas shot,
}. That corunittce was headed by.
“Sea, Fee ok Church and hes sines
Thean replacad by 2 sgwly formed
t. “egmraitice/ 7 hesded by Sen. Daniel
Jinchya (Dy Hawall) and Sea, How> ;
gerd Rsker| {Ry Tenn... qa iis fink]:
A trenore, “that? ‘former -) committee ;

i

“49. continue “the investigation of co *
tyert CLA Activity 23 well as ‘cone on
aictions bureeen the Cestro ar: :
nation plot|and ihe #stassinalioan ot:
gohn F FL Retest

AIA theres ite.
vat std questions about
Vee. Har way “Caweld's Unaives pare. a
i ticularly yelsting-to the so-called ||
i peteligtion ig theory” —~- that Castzo |!
“yor preCertro seents chad JFK

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Oma. beralse: of the 1A, atlempis,

i
{on Castro’sitife .° a
aia Hast Iptenvieiwed' Reset awied 4
eS 2 member: of the former -com- |
ite and he 8 als a ember ef.
| the pew Inteligence Committee, |.” |
i “Rosell! was very ckodid Dut ae
Gd” nots yolunteer, information,Ty
art BLS wey Oe paserte
Committze Investsators geld RES
ay they Reve found so tink bee.
ween. Roselli and Evgese N. Cafe
“yale & Rock villey Mé,, Pppugue avio
dealer With | ‘reposted organized

o

: came copnections who ded vender, oo

J dycumsianges pyEieriously eoine* |
. to Roselli’s dest iv. fl ose
te 19], was tepocted “rae

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“ae by hig wile e2 duly 28, ihe . ad

ants} “aD with hom 3

dase of Hew. York Harbor off Stas |
‘ten Isisnd om Aug. 4, ble bady «

‘anchors. Peller apld he had been, |
- strangled, Rosalll {hed been. agphy's aa i.

*Coratta’e body Honted to the Bute.» ; 7
7
al

wreoved tn & padlocked chaln and
welpited -by ‘two. 15-pound boat
Iated, possthiy “by strangling, ace ne

New York. city: derectives sold ..
that Carella “knew Glancana” but -

 earat: sg to nveriigators here, 6. | |

cthey have pot brea able to. Pin’: a

*

+

Hin Chleago about two anther a0. Sa:

“ down a motive in his death.” .
The Washington Star, quollng an’ .
tinidentified “FBI source, reported V!
that. Carstig had met with Rosell’ 4

“eer:

weep:


7

- ", that federal agencies cooperste'w

H

he
eon a ae ese

were "By RON sBRECQUE

an herave Laud werner

a Sen. Gary art ‘D., les 10, made” ‘an ‘uns
Miami Friday for a private’ meeting with homicide de

nnounc

with local. police!” ;

The FBI was ordered-iite the ‘case Jast’ week br A

* General Edward Levi after ipressure.f from
+f. “We're not ere to-solve the’ crime,” Han seid, “ we want 10
‘find out if there fs any connection between Roses 's) death and
his testimony  pefore, the: Committee? wee : red

. mittee in the past wear bout ;
recruitment Sy the CIA id @ Pe.
xilf ri Bel Crstrt, WAS Found |

: might yave beta Killed 10. prevent’
him froma talking zboul piber
' re Orgenired crime pacts,’
"Dknow of no plans whats
“tp have Fim come bask," Hart
“pul thats not te say we woulda
‘have calls a fire hack it some
“Facts arose ys

HART SAID he Jalsa” hoped tee ;
“meet with local @ificials of th eiFBL.

“and Immig

lion fervice. at la ute

ration and Natur Peas

Resell, 71, organized crime| TE
ure who festified three times: bev
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the Senate committee. fe

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teetives: to |
underscore the strong inieiest.of the Senate Sélect Intelligence.
_ Coninittee in ibe John Roselli Fiurder inv estigation and to insure

. erlast resified in April,

ov home’ ev fa:

¥ gimme when
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June of 1975, dust a aa!
Intelligence Commitiee?

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; om Aving Ha ‘
tee eae, avcomminet” atet
¥ torney who, in Jun€

of 1975, wes “
?  Gianceng”

aring to interview .
*“sbout his involvement with, es

: “in the. Caco plot 2: Syenlzed -

aheapa and Tarmp a 6
nae figure. Santo Plrraffieante”
played| zeepmpanylng oles. in.
the ClA-Inspired Cesire essosenty
tion: plot, another gommitt¢e nid
Lamember aryeveling, with Hart, sai

: FLiVaye,
4° The ten

ay gg bpenging
ef eG) Subp aior ‘gaid, but Tratfix

H ag
f tante ies aeae nevey called because the J
a Gosirlttes, considered. Rosli's, eset
fb imeny Ube most important tits
: Aandi We. eet ‘ee ee 283
TCHICAGO- sAREA *- Investigators iH
ae clases that Giancana’s’ death
part of ao° vinterbal . gangland ¢

egie.

i WASEDA Hurt ‘ol The ‘Here .
Lel@ Friday that * with WRoschi’s *
1 deeih, “troubling questions” Epo. :
, Giencane’s. ‘ynulder Enger. “The co *
“incidences”
$ selves] TOBRe
t preset anne. mw

Hs $e GOeerte OT
aren if he was. eptistied i a:
{the congiusions (ef investigator 5
tharGiancens ‘g death was roi cone:
, reves to hig potential sestinonys |
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intros eters

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a Bid the widespredé res red
ports ae Giencana’s death: that :
Rg appesranee before the comuinite,
“tee ‘es framinéat wefe not true,
phat Purther indicates, he Spread, &
_ Anat Giancane’s desth sas pot, dhe!
ectly. related o'his’ peaks CA. A aso: +
sedation: oe =

i [eve FINALLY: Ee hin
rae’ niimber «the day “hav west
Stile,” Madigan. Said Friday.“We™:
» dad some difioulty tracking, him
| Bowen in Rouston (where Glan Yo
'. had beeal tn the bespitel), It had - 43 “
. heed ‘decided thet I owas going to I ft
> Inlerview! himté zee. wh hether itv!
' would beltorth Ht to call him: ins|® |

po,

oe

{. coat

ne “Covstta’ s body Honted to the sure.

witness, He hed not been coatscted ‘“faca of New. York Flarbor off Stae | ;
1
i

yet and heshag tot Mea. subpee %
aied,” Madigan sid :

‘tes Island oa Aug. 4, ble body -
welgated & padlocked ciara :
. * . mn 2 welguted by two. li-poun at ‘
7 OF: al ib 3 | ied Been nabph | ‘anchors, Pollce ayid he hatd been | 7
snaed, did testify for the first ‘ure: i strangled. Roselli ‘hed been'a asphyS Re a ie
‘ at ca jer Ginneara was spot | ’ lated, possibly ‘by streng!ing, ace~ ;
ise & ca hoes hee ct by cording 10 Inverligstors heres 1.
; ay Evsak: Chueh and bas zines New York. City dethctives sald ..

i heen rep Tce ‘by 2 newly formed that-Car, t :
oon Swede Sen. 4 effa “knew Glancana™ but >,
6% raittee * sat é by Daniel , they have fot been able to: in

“ts “down a motive in his death. |
§ werd Rakey, vel Tea): ib ‘its final ee We
| i yeport, “that. ‘former committee : *. The Washington Star, quoting an

““tmidantif{ied ‘FBI source, reneated
‘strong! urged the new committee * :
"46 contau thé Investigation of cos! i that Caretis had met with Rosell’ ‘

; oes CIA Activity 25 well as cone +]. ; Hin Chleego about two mon: iacen pa
| ‘sections birween the Cestro asad. | yet "
"nation plot end ihe extassinatibn of: oT

, 2obn F. Kénnd ote

“AKT arp FRIDAY there, are,
ati unin AS suvered questions shout
LLee Harvey: Giwall's motives ps . : ; ; oe,
. ticularly jelsthag -t9 the go-catied ! , ;
i peteliat! ea igory™ — thet Cartzo . _
‘yor procera: sgents hed -JFK a:
1 ANd Dbecaliie of the CLA attempts .
on cas Ng Lifes Pal
Yo Bart interviewed" Rose of whee A
“eS 2 xoember-of the dormer cores 4
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MEMORANDUM:|F

Michael Madigan

August 13, “1976

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I recently discussed: with. Agent Richard ‘tayl
Federal Bureau of. Investigation my’ recollections om

testimony interviews with Mr John Rosselli prior |

testifying under oath in- Jume of 1975.

_ that there: ive several meetings between: myaelf,

the. Committee, and Rosselli

attorneys expressed on> numerous occasions. ‘fear. o:

of Rosselit.| ‘They insisted and: the Comittes:

- would conduct i

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Ge Washington Post

AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER ae ok

~ Who Killed John Roselli?

E'RE GOING TO tell you a little story now.
Once there was a President who was murdered.
His brother was murdered too. A long time after they
died some very strange facts came to light. It turned
out that while they were running the government,

the government was trying to get two Mafia mobsters

to arrange the murder of someone else—the head of
a smail, hostile neighbor state. It also turned out that
one brother—the one who was President—appar-
ently had a girlfriend who was the girlfriend as well
of the mobsters. And one of the mobsters, whose
nickname was Momo, was prominent on the list of

criminals the President’s brother was trying to put in -

jail. The story may sound complicated, but life is com-
plicated, and the complications in this case got even
more so. For when’ a committee of the Congress
wanted the two mobsters to come and tell them some-
thing about all this, only one of them—the one
named Johnny— came, The other one, Momo, was.
murdered in his house a week before they wanted
him to testify. Johnny, however, told his story to one
committee in the Congress and then came back—qui-
etly—-to tell some more things to another committee
which was in fact looking into the murder of the
President. Then Johnny went to Florida. Then no one.
could find him. Then some fishermen found him. |
Dead. In an oil drum.

But we haven’t told you the strangest part of all
yet, the part you're really not going to believe. It is
that when the great national political community of
solons, scribes, policemen, spies and managers of the
general: wellbeing heard about poor Johnny, they

said: “Oh, my goodness.” Some of them went farther, _

of course. They said: “Fancy that!” But most of them
didn’t say anything at all except: “Yawn.”

Forgive us for lapsing into storybookese. We do it
for a reason which is that the simple unadorned facts
of the John and Robert Kennedy-Fidel Castro-CIA-
Mafia-Momo Giancana-Johnny Roselli-Judith Exner-.
Church Committee-Schweiker Committee saga need

_ to be put. forward in stark outline for their magni-
tude to be understood. Is it really, as the sophisticated ~

wisdom goes, “paranoid” on our part to brood about
the suggestive and possibly monstrous interconnec-
tions between all these facts and to wonder why they
are not the object of intense press and government

- scrutiny? What accounts for the general indifference

in high places? What accounts for the.eagerness with
which we all seem to accept that familiar tipoff that
we shall be hearing no more about the latest crime—
i.e., the pronouncement that Mr. Roselli’s dispatch to
an oil drum and Beyond had “all the earmarks of a

: gangland slaying.” Those are. the good old “ear-
- marks” we only hear about when it is next to. certain,. ‘ment in particular can turn their attention away un-

that we shall hear nothing more.
The supposition of course is that the Gang which
runs gangland has its reasons and its methods and

" that, disagreeable as these may be, they really lie out-
; side the proper realm of public concern because they _

me

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amount to a system of justice which 1) only affects
those dumb enough to get involved in it in the first
place and 2) tends only to punish those who have
committed what the rest of us would regard as hei-
nous crimes anyway. Not that these are things people

_say-——they’re things people can be expected to as-

sume. But we think in this case the assumptions have
even less validity than they would have on a clear
day, which isn’t much. And that is because if we
know anything, we know that the Mafia operations in
which Messers. Giancana and Roselli figured had be-
come intertwined with the operations of the United
States government. Never mind that the decisions of
the early 1960s which made this so may rank among
the miost abominable decisions ever taken in the U.S.
government. The plain fact is that, given the provoca-
tive and suggestive history of the two men, it is not
possible for either Congress or the Executive Branch
‘to look the other way or to complaisantly accept the
earmarks-of-a-gangland-slaying bromide.

_ After Mr. Giancana was killed, the Church Commit-
tee inquired of the FBI whether its proposed meeting
with him had figured in his murder. The FBI re- .
ported that it had no evidence to this effect. The
_then-director of the CIA, William Colby, felt obliged
to state that the CIA had had nothing to do with the.
murder—and Mr. Colby likewise pronounced the
other day that he was certain the CIA had not done in
Mr. Roselli. The mere fact that the questions, to
which these were meant to be the answers, had been
raised tells us, anyway, that much more in the way of |
inquiry is wanted. The newly formed Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence has now asked the Justice

' Department to make an investigation of Mr. Roselli’s .

death. We think the Department should comply and
that the investigation, despite FBI Director Clarence
Kelley's disclaimer .of jurisdiction, should have the
., Attorney General's personal attention. Such. atten-
tion is needed because of the elaborate and not en-

‘tirely reassuring history of relationships between the -
‘FBI and the CIA and the various participants in the
- whole sorry saga. We are not suggesting’ that any

agency of government—or even any of those agen-
cy’s fringe retainers —-were the murderers. We are
suggesting that there is an overlay of potentially em-
barrassing information sufficiently pervasive to keep

- an awful lot of: people from wanting to have this

thing aired. We also think that the Select Committee
should reserve the right to pursue the matter. Con-
gress, after all. can hardly be expected to sit idly by

‘while its witnesses aré being done in. Nor do we see .:

how the public in general and the political establish

til we are all satisfied that a much greater effort has —
been made by the government—which means both
the Executive Branch and the Congress—to discover
what elements were at play in this series of appalling
_ crimes. and scandals.

“|


ROSSELLI CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS

1955 Meets Maheu at insurance friend's home.

1960 Late July/early August. Maheu calls. Working for government. Recruit
Rosselli only. Meet Brown Derby, L.A., for lunch. Long talk about
project in Cuba. Rosselli wants verification.

2nd meeting, L.A., discuss further details, no discussion of specific
techniques. Plan to meet in N.Y. for verification.

Sept. 14, 1960. First meeting in N.Y. at old Plaza Hotel. Rosselli
‘introduced by Maheu to O'Connell. Rosselli "knew" O'Connell worked
for the CIA. Rosselli agrees to work on Cuban project.

Sept. 25, 1960. Maheu and Rosselli travel to Miami to begin making
contact with Cubans to be recruited for mission.

(Between Sept. 25 and the Bay of Pigs, a series of recruitments, meetings,
and arrangements were made. The following is an outline of events that
is not necessarily in chronological order.)

%
-- Meeting where Maheu is introduced to Trafficantg. Meeting
where Maheu is introduced to Giancana. Giancana was, according
to Rosselli, to only be a "back up man."' Rosselli states ®
Giancana had nothing to do with the actual operation. Trafficant¢.
was used, according to Rosselli, as a translator.

-- Meeting with O'Connell, Maheu, Rosselli, Sad fpye™iderhxg]s*tes==
discuss the Cuban project.

-- Rosselli, in his contact with the Cubans, "invents" the cover
story that he represents some Wall Street business interests who
want to see Castro eliminated. Rosselli trusts Cubans he has
recruited because they are part of the Bay of Pigs operation.

-- lst attempt at assassination involved the use of pills. Maheu ~
and Rosselli met with Cuban #1 and #2 (?}. Maheu opened up his
briefcase and gave the pills with instructions for their use to
Cuban #1. Maheu also had $10,000 he gave the Cubans for doing
the project. Rosselli did not know of the money. Rosselli states
he received no remumeration for his work on the project, in fact,
he paid out $800 for gas for a speed boat to deliver two or three
man parties for guerrilla raids into Cuba.

-- Prior to Bay of Pigs there was no discussion of using guns to
assassinate Castro.

-- Rosselli's cover name was "John Ralston."

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-- At different times, Cuban #1, #2, or #3 would propose different

projects. These would range from using plastic explosives to
booby trapping Castro's desk. Rosselli would relay these on
to Maheu, who, in turn, would contact the CIA. Most projects
were vetoed, but the CIA did supply a short wave radio to the

Cubans in Florida, to try and make contact with their people
in Havana.

Eventually, Rosselli felt the project had failed. There was no
specific point when it was announced. But, at sometime Rosselli
assumed the project, for whatever reason, had not succeeded.

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_DATE

1959

October |
1960

1961 Feb.

Early 1961

April 1961

"May 31, 1961

Rest of 1961

" and 1962

Sometime in
early 1960's

October 1962

Early 1963

March 1963

Sometime in

1963

November

1963

Early 1964

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CHRONOLOGY
(ALLEGATIONS AND REPORTS OF ANY

U.S. INVOLVEMENT IN ASSASSINATIONS)

EVENT OR ITEM

Richard Bissel becomes DDP
(head of Plans Directorate)

Tap on Dan Rowan phone in Las
Vegas ( allegedly: (a) favor
to Giancana, and (b) done by
Rosselli) ;

Lumumba mysteriously killed
during Congolese strife.

News reports of CIA consideration

of Lumumba plot, but claim it

SOURCE ( Where Necessary)

Date and Rosselli role from
Government Opposition paper
to Rosselli motion for

reduction in sentence, 1971

Wash.Post & Star contempor-
aneous accounts

Wash. Post 2/6/75 story by
Lardener and Greider Tab A

was done by others,e.g. Belgians?

Attempts to kill Gastro before
Bay of Pigs landing by Rosselli
team

Bay of Pigs Landing

Trujillo assassinated; charge
of U.S. involvement

Fossibly ongoing efforts to
Kill Gastro by Rosselli team

RFK quashes prosecution. of
Giancana for Rowan Las Vegas tap

Cuban Missile Crisis -(date for
background reference)

n

Rosselli training a team in Miami

area

Rosselli's last effort to
kill Castro ©

RFK stopped further efforts

Diem killed in Saigon coup
JFK told Smathers later
he thought CIA involved

Colby head of DDP Far East

Division at the time

Howard Hunt and others from
Bay of Pigs effort begin plot on
another Castro assassination

Page 1271

Jack Anderson 1967, 1971
and 1975 columns; .
Watergate Helms memcon

Jack Anderson column (1/19/
71) on Smathers coversation
with JFK. Agee book ( obvious
ly suspect in some respects)

e

last attempt by : .
Rosselli team in 1963,infra.

' Watergate memcons on Keeney
and Wilson interviews

Wash. Post Greider/Lardener

. story,supra., states Army
Rangér Capt Ayres saw him.

J. Anderson 1971 columns

J. Anderson 1971 columns

J. Anderson, 1/19/71 column
articles on Colby

reported by Tad Szulc in
book on Howard Hunt (1974)

May 1965

May 1965
(or later)

> 1966
1967

March 3
1967

K

( more on Hunt Castro project)

Assassination alleged to have
beenflanned as part of a smaller
invasion effortand preparations
were allegedly made in Costa Rica

Hunt Castro scheme “aborted when

Dominican Republic strife broke out
(scheme also allegedly involved

McCord, Barker and Sturgis)

As Katzenbach/Helms/LBJ meeting

‘on Domincan Republic ended, LBJ

asked Helms if CIA had ever

been involved in assassination

(of a leader) and Helms said "no",
SAA Poisowsn lot aq] aia
Pees, Duvalieej@ Pb atest "GF
Rosselli indicted for alien law

and interstate gambling crimes
(Friars Club card game rigging)

First Anderson column.on Rosselli

In response to Anderson story,

. RFK tells Walinsky and Edelman

1968
1968

Early 1969

1970

1971 Jan.18

Jan.19

he shut it off;

CIA bembeg Haitians pdece

- Rosselli sentenced to 5 years

Asst. Atty Gen Wilson asks for
Justice Dept. Rosselli file

Rosselli goes before grand jury
under immunity re:Giancana

First of three Anderson columns

rset.
A(scheduled to go before grand

jury on Las Vegas skimming) calls
AG John Mitchell

Same day: Haldeman. ied Dean to inquire-

into Hughes/O'Brien/Maheu ties

Maheu interviewed by Wilson and Peterson

on Rosselli matter

Caulfield to Dean memo that Maheu was
involved in covert activity for CIA in

early 1960's

Rosselli files motion for reduction -

in sentence, citing Anderson stories

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and presenting memorandum to Court

Chronology

“= 2

Szule,supra

Katzenbach testimony
to Senate Select Committ

Avdeesan cok, ool: WS

Government Opposition
to sentence reduction,

supra .

We dont have, but Andersc
referred to in Hersh NY
Times story 3/10/75

Hersh story, supra
prodtasep crf, yfofor

Government Opposition, .

Keeney Watergate memcon

Government Opposition,sup

«

Lenzner memo to SenErvin
on Rosselli ( and phone lc

_DATE

1959

October
1960

1961 Feb.

Early 1961

April 1961

May 31, 1961

Rest of 1961
and 1962

Sometime in
early 1960's

October 1962

Early 1963

March 1963

Sometime in

1963

November

1963

Early 1964

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CHRONOLOGY
(ALLEGATIONS AND REPORTS OF ANY

U.S. INVOLVEMENT IN ASSASSINATIONS)

EVENT OR ITEM

Richard Bissel becomes DDP
(head of Plans Directorate)

Tap on Dan Rowan phone in Las

Vegas ( allegedly: (a) favor
to Giancana, and (b) done by
Rosselli)

Lumumba mysteriously killed
during Congolese strife.

News reports of CIA consideration

of Lumumba plot, but claim it

was done by others,e.g. Belgians?

Attempts to kill G@astro before

Bay of Pigs landing by Rosselli

team

Bay of Pigs Landing

Trujillo assassinated; charge
of U.S. involvement

Possibly ongoing efforts to

Kill Gastro by Rosselli team

RFK quashes prosecution of

Giancana for Rowan Las Vegas tap

Cuban Missile Crisis -(date for
background referente)

Rosselli training a team in Miami
area :

- Rosselli's last effort to
kill Castro

RFK stopped further efforts

Dien killed in Saigon coup

JFK told Smathers later
he thought CIA involved

Colby head of DDP Far East
Division at the time

Howard Hunt and others from

Bay of Pigs effort begin plot on

another Castro assassination

Page 123

SOURCE ( Where Necessary)

Date and Rosselli role from
Government Opposition paper
to Rosselli motion for

reduction in sentence, 1971

Wash.Post & Star contempor-
“aneous accounts

Wash. Post 2/6/75 story by
Lardener and Greider Tab A

Jack Anderson 1967, 1971
and 1975 columns; .
Watergate Helms memcon

Jack Anderson column (1/19/
71) on Smathers coversation
with JFK. Agee book ( obvious
ly suspect in some respects)

last attempt by :
Rosselli team in 1963,infra.

Watergate memcons on Keeney
and Wilson interviews

Wash. Post Greider/Lardener

story,supra., states Army
Ranger Capt Ayres saw him.

J. Anderson 1971 columns

J. Anderson 1971 columns

J, Anderson; -1/19/71-column _-
articles on Colby a

reported by Tad Szulc in
book on Howard Hunt (2974)

Chronology -= 2

( more on Hunt Castro project)

Assassination alleged to have
peenflanned as part of a smaller
invasion effortand preparations
were allegedly made in Costa Rica

May 1965 Hunt Castro scheme "aborted when
Dominican Republic strife broke out
(scheme also allegedly involved
McCord, Barker and Sturgis)
May 1965 As Katzenbach/Helms/LBJ meeting
(or later) on Domincan Republic ended, LBJ
asked Helms if CIA had ever
been involved in assassination
(of a leader) and Helms said “no"
1967 © Rosselli indicted for alien law
and interstate gambling crimes.
(Friars Club card game rigging)
March 3 First Anderson column.on Rosgelli
1967
In response to Anderson story,
RFK telis Walinsky and Edelman
he shut it off;
1968 Rosselli sentenced to 5 years
Early 1969 Asst. Atty Gen Wilson asks for
Justice Dept. Rosselli file
1970 Rosselli goes before grand jury

1971 Jan.18

Jan.19

Jan. 27

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under immunity re:Giancana

First of three Anderson columns

Mayhu (scheduled to go before grand
jury on Las Vegas skimming) calls
“AG John Mitchell

Same day: Haldeman ie¢as Dean to inquire —

into Hughes/O'Brien/Maheu ties

on Rosselli matter

Caulfield to Dean memo that Maheu was
involved in covert activity for CIA in
early 1960's .

Rosselli files motion for reduction ~

in sentence, citing Anderson stories
and presenting memorandum to Court

Page 1374 —

Maheu interviewed by Wilson and Peterson

Szule, supra

Katzenbach testimony
to Senate Select Committ

Government Opposition
to sentence reduction,

Supra . \

We dont have, but Anderso
referred to in Hersh NY
Times story 3/10/75

Hersh story,supra

Government Opposition,

Keeney Watergate memcon

Government Opposition,supr

Lenzner memo to SenErvin
on Rosselli ( and phone 1c

#.

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Page

After the|Bay of Pigs (April 1961)

Rosselli felt ; "sorry for the poor bastards, deft on the

beach.”

dé@aths :sinc

Yag

pate_in the-invasion— Two or three weeks

invasion, Rosselli was contacted in Los

hotel in Miami.
to Harvey:
the Cuban| project.
all contact with Maheu and Giancana.

a the
Angeles by
O'Connell, a meeting was arranged for at the airport

Rosselli went there and was introduced
O'Connell said Harvey was now|/in charge of
Harvey told Rosselli he was to cease
Further, Harvey

E

stated that the government was still interested in using

Rosselli for intelligence-gathering operations.

Rosselli

would report information from the Cubans to Harvey about

personalities and events in Cuba.
relay on to his Cuban contacts requests!
formation! from the CIA. :

Rosselli would also

[for specific in-

. . | ~ ;
Sometime between the Bay of Pigs invasion

land the Cuban

missile crisis, Harvey gave Rosselli six poison capsules.

Rosselli,

in turn, gave them to’ his Cuban |

contacts who

were to take them to Cuba, where another Cuban or Cubans

would use| them to assassinate Castro.

viously failed. At one point, Rosselli)
over the radio that Castro was very ill:
later, he! recovered.

Rosselli never
learned the details of what happened, but

[the project ob-
remembers hearing
'A short time

site
t

ly

Sometime before the missile crisis, Rosselli arranged,

pursuant to Cuban #1 request, for a van

and ammunition to be delivered in Floridal
.Ros$elli watched the Cuban contact pick’

return it) empty. Rosselli assumed that:

loaded with rifles
O'Connell and
up ‘the van and.
these guns were

going to be used by the two or three-man raiding parties

in Cuba to assassinate Castro and overthrow the

j

During the Cuban missile crisis, Rosselli

}

government.

i
was in Chicago.

He contacted Harvey at Harvey's mother's home in Indian-

apolis and left his number in Chicago. -
him, told him to go to Washington, D. Ce

| Harvey then called
From Washington,

D.C., Rosselli traveled to Florida where he stayed for

the duration of the Cuban missile crisis.|
would, through his Cuban contacts, attempt
of the Russian missiles in Cuba. | I
After the! Cuban missile

location
that this had been successful.
crisis, Harvey called Rosselli and told
contacts
missions.
called off.

135

with any and all persons involved
Harvey never stated why the missions were being
am
i

‘He, at times,
to verify the
Rosselli claimed

him to stop all
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Rowan Tap : |
Rosselli said that he understood that Giancana had
asked Maheu for. a tap on Dan Rowan. Maheu gave
Rosselli two stories. The first was thatjhe was
doing Giancana a favor and the second was that there
was a real intelligence value in that Maheu was
afraid that Giancana or Rowan might be giving out
intelligence information that would be of value to
enemies of the United States. Rosselli:had not heard
of the names Dubois or Belotti or Fred Harrison. He
admitted that Harvey had discussed the tap with hin,
but both Harvey and Rosselli were mad that the opera-
tion had gone. on. Giancana obviously knew about the
tap. Maheu did ask Rosselli to get pail money for
the two tappers who were caught and thrown in jail.
Maheu suggested that Rosselli could get a; hotel to
turn over! the bail money. Finally, Rosselli arranged
to have aj man with a green carnation in' ‘his lapel
meet and transfer the bail money. He never received
any of this money back. Rosselli claims that he did
not know what type of tap went on. He admitted that
he had been questioned by the FBI but he gave no
answers. | Rosselli knew that Maheu had been questioned
by the FBT. : RL


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some background information.

MEMORANDUM | !
To: my Gary |
From: Rick —
Date: August 10, 1976
Subject: Roselli
First,
August 9,

if
S
:
;

Kelley and/Bush to discuss Roselli's

doesn't wal ve to touch this with a ten-foot pole.

meeting,

been told by Justice (Richard Thornburg) that it

jurisdiction in this case.

consulted. |

a letter

6

requested Kelley to take this ‘up directly with Lew.

Senators Baker and Inouye (especially

Fi Adams told ‘Inouye and Baker that the'

Levi had,

‘Yesterday,

enators Inouye and Baker met with Directors

ideath. The FBI

At the
FBI had
had no

apparently, not been

Baker)

Today,

was sent ‘to Levi, signed by |Baker ang | Tnouye, urg-

ing Justice to authorize FBI involvement. A copy of that

letter is

One

attached.

other point about the meeting.

George Bush was

extremely upset about this case and the allegations that

the CIA was: involved in ‘Roselli’ Ss death.

He said ‘that he

would personally contact Levi to request that the Depart -

ment grant jurisdiction. to the FBI t6 ‘investigate.

For your information, Roselli appeared before the

Committee on four sepa

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ate occasions ‘to testify on three


aE:

a aft
matters.|| He appeared on June 25 to discuss the|\plots against

!
Castro; on, September 20 and 22 to discuss the Campbell affair;
and on April 25 to discuss the retaliation theory.
Noy for current events. ‘First, the two detectives in

Miami handling the Roselli case are Detectives | Zatrefralek

and Wolf! .; They are with Dade County Homicide. | their numbers

if | \
are 305-547-7456 and 547-7923. Madigan has already talked
with Detective Wolf. Second, in light of the Inouye/Baker

yet

letter to, Levi I did not ask the FBI about the ‘current

whereabouts of Santo Trafficante. I did, however, ask CIA.
pou . | | .

They have no information. Third, Baker and Liebengood are

putting together a packet of information on Roselli, which

will include CIA and Select Committee information and will
a pe oo 7
|to. you tomorrow. . f

b

get this

“I think you already know this, but Senator Baker does

iF

want to. Launch an informal investigation into thils Matter.

! 1
Roselli told hin, when he appeared before the Committee, that .

he thought. his life was'in danger for testifying. Baker feels
i

a moral obligation, therefore, to look into this.

I abe attached the most recent articles ‘on the Roselli

death for ‘you. .

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MEMORANDUM: | i
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TO: ue THE FILES ‘ 7
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FROM: Merix SHEA AND MICHAEL MADIGAN - iy iG
: we ts ei getege a “4d
DATE: Te 21, 1975 |
SUBJECT: sea OF A MEEETING WITH MR. JOHN ROSSELLI |.
BEGAN : ‘AT 211:35 a.m. » JUNE 21, 1975, IN ROOM 71 ef the WATERGATE HOTEL.
‘tl
mie
PRESENT ‘AT|THE SESSION: “MR. . MICHAEL MADIGAN, MR. PATRICK. SHEA OF THE SELECT —
COMMITTEE STAFF, MR. ROSSELLI, MR. THOMAS WADDEN, MR. JAMES CANTILLON, MR. LESLIE
SCHERR. i | |
FR
At the) beginning of the meeting, Mr. Madigan asked Mr Rosselli if he felt

a need for] aby Pe Protection.

take care of hims
could provide! U;
This offer||

ie

was rejected.

He stated; emphatically, "No!" ithat he was able to

Madigan made it clear that the Senate Select Committee

ace lis’ for Mr. Rosselli during his stay in Washington.

a
{

Mr. Rosselli stated that Giancanyia had no involvement ; to his knowledge, .

with any of|ithe! attempted assassinations of Fidel Castro.
higher authorities in government but stated that Rossellil:

LS

Giancana has] a backup man.
publicity in| recent times,
the. Agency! A point of view

aa |
Rossel was upset by

Maheu did deal with
‘was only the contact,
Rosselli was very concerned about the adverse

about the CIA and he thought it was unfortunate from
that the Giancana name had been linked to the Agency.

the harassment he had been under by the FBI. He

" pointed to] the 1966 Frier @lub incident as an example. He !said in 1966 he had-
by the FBI/to provide information on inside basis about organized
crime and when he had refused 18 months later he was indicted. Again, the first
week in June) of 1970, the FBI had offered him cooperation! but he refused.

been approached

li

life

who 15 dea

of
Rossel first met Maheu twenty years ago. He was introduced through a

itzle, who was fin the insurance business.

“now, name

ng Pp
This first! meeting happened in Los Angeles, in 1955. Maheu, | at the time, was

running Maheul Associates in Washington, D.C. The meeting was only a social
gathering. 1 pers was nothing specifically discussed about  apedvities of the CIA.

een

eu called Rosselli and stated fehat he was working for.

specifically asked to recruit! ‘Rosselli. Maheu Wax

In July or
aly the gove
th stressed that it was to be/Rosselli and no one else. They jagreed to meet for lunch
i — at at the Brown] Derby in Los Angeles“ Maheu described the ‘Project as an intelligence

- operation fnvol
Raoul Castro).

éu mentioned specifically Castro, Che Guevara, and

g Cuba. |
It was Rosselli' s feeling that Maheu had vecruited hin because of

his known Cuban connections in Florida. These connections|were unrelated to

_ gambling.
services. on :

{
The all
was a cover

ilhere was no money mentioned by Maheu_ to Rosselli} for payment for

leised support of Wall Street business men had Le been mentioned and
jinvented{ by Roseelli-later. At the end of their first meeting, they

agreed to ineet again at’ which time Maheu would verify to [Rosselli that he was

‘working for ithe

governnent /official of highemraushowsty to Rosselli.
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The g iy er, At this point,
Rosselli was/in ted to hroceed to New intr oduct Lio o the
government ee icjal. We At both the first and second méé img ed-for an .

hour or mor

The meeting in New york took place in a hotel room.
“Bus, Rosselli and "big"
id not expr ain ‘why they au there.

official.
whether thr
for the CIA’

Ro

aa various .as

pects of the proposed ASRERERKEL, projects, were—discussed

Pow ee : re mentioned of specific techniques. i!
! arent a Nye. coinciding
Rosselil’t | remembered his arrival in New York: skting with a visit w by
‘Khrushchev] Eisenhower, |: Castro, Nasser, and perhaps Krushev. He said: it was noteworthy
because New. york was crawling with officials from all over the world. Rosselli
paid his own! fare from Los Angeles to New York and stayed at the Oatlands
on Fifth Ave ie ‘and 57th Street. He was given the cover nee? John on.

‘In attendance.were 4

ell, and two or three other people who *
‘Jim O'Connell was Mitroduced as a CIA

sselli was unclear as to whether this was stated explicitly or

or
oy
‘Hal

ough ‘the whole context of discussions it became clear that he worked

the governnen

[ine
HHT

their first:
York at thi:

A | At this point, Rosselli was sati isfied that Maheu was working for
tl! and , therefore, agreed to work & the Cuban ‘mission described at
eting. Rosselli was not sure as to the length) of his stay in New
ime. He did remember going to lunch with Maheu a number of times
about the particular projects.

ff

t
‘After I

Flori

O'Connell, ;

techniques (of
Falls Church:
There still||
private mai
When a

then arranged |

i

; stay in New York, he traveled to gAIee Nashington, D. C. or

eliwas uncertain as to the exact location e|

5 between himself and Maheu to discuss “further plans =

There was only one further meeting with

lving these preliminary: stages. At this point, he only discussed
assassination! with Maheu. Rosselli remembered staying in Maheu's
home (_ it had a tennis court during his stays in Washington.

had been no discussion of the cover story(that Rosselli was a

en ‘representing a group of private businessmen] from the New York. )

shld seached Porida, he Sips contact a ubdebe Cubans and
1for the Cubans | to meet: wit. He trusted the Cubans he came

id
iyo

in contact: wath: because they, according to themselves, were working on the Bay of

registere jun
while Maheul,

so that Hughe:

terms of Ros

further discuss1
the CIA, would \ visit with Maheu and Rosselli.

WHERE

Pigs operation, | ‘which had not occurred as of yet. There were times when they would
stay at Arthur K h He

» in Florida. At times he
Ts was to allow him.to-maintain his cover
for Hughes , was able to register, under his own name,

Tf ils still workin

3.
sel

g
believed that he was doing his work. The operation went on in

tings with his Cuban contacts ‘and then having

oS about "speci ics wit . At times} O'Connell, from
One time, before the 1960 election,

0'Connell Bagueht with him

At this. Jpoine, Rosse

itwo Admirals, one of whom, Rosselli thinks, was retired.

namely that he
in seeing Gas
O'Connell, !
left and Ro
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e private business interests in New jvork who were intérested
with, The Cubans, at this point!, | had not met withJim
Immediately after the: Bay of Pigs, Maheu

Then he also left for the West

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once more with O'Connell.

ith a special poison that could be nee into the food of
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Cuban whose elative was a chef nn Cashig, Cub
favel betw an. a. was agreed that the CIA would manufacture
It would be turned over to O'Connel11/to Maheu, to Rosselli,

the poison Capsule.
and Fdkebeen to the. Cubans.
Fouggingbisucigte!. mall
‘Rosselli and the| Cubans present, and gave them &

case, Wi |
Gitiy The | money had come ftom the CIA and was considered partial payment
for the job} of assassinating Castro.

ht the capsule.
to the room,

Maheu_brow

to Florida to the

At this meeting, Maheu described the

method of using these capsules, making sure the Cubans understood -the-Cubans
1 d

a they coulg bot b

it Litt

about 250} f000. dollars.
with the

op

the meeting]
Cuban contact

to be ase |

0, which

&

thor and blow

cor he

ease with wW
such as the |
Castro's hai ral
country. Anot
latter twolpr

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jon to the CIA for equipment.

In Cuba about: the success or failure of the:

eontact Ca
ae |S was 5 gure that the

ich plastic explosives could be traced 2 of to
GTA. Maheu did sixxmam discuss hfe so Gigars t that
'drop off, According to Rosselli lose =o 4 iLity Ato

pro} ects were proposed by Cu an_refugees

e sl.
Cubans, at this meeting,

help the families

That ‘figure was used by Maheu after his first meeting
uba destribe# what the. a CIA might put up to
of men injured or killed in this taigsae daokalnatlon |
with the money

| Ross 1i thinks that.
and capsules was after the election. e number one

that Rosselli had would from time to time, make requests of Rosselli

The CIA did provide, for instance,

was | ‘supposed to be used by the Cubans in Florida to
poison pill mission.

ills were sent to Cuba but he! Has received n

ened. [ Lg

is

wt Priec was for the Cubans to receive plastic ae losives from the
*Iithem to frogmen:on their side that in turn woul place them on ships

them up. ‘The CIA refused to do] this because of the
the government agencies
sous make

Vern the
ped desk. ewer of these

whg said they had people

was. that. there be

in positions)vis a vis Castro: who could achieve the assassination.

to have a better ide:
in the Bayjjof
successful ly}.|| Rosselli's

New Orlean$ ifor. meetings.

idl

uy Rosselli claimed
r men than were involved

ce Pigs, perhaps a a hundred, they could land in Guba and do the job

Cuban contact at the time was traveling to New York and
‘Rosselli| was not sure about what the meetings were

about but gaild that ghey were related to the overthrow of: Castro. Another proposal
put forward | was *tMurchase gesbeed: boat and use some typetod-expioding-seaghalhes

ay
The night béfore the
d

Wily

A in

Bay, Pigs Rosselli want to his numb
| The ban contact said,''See you in Ha

house spoke with him. FOU

express erious re rvation about. the possibility success

Rosselli heft) Florida ht. after the of Pigs. Hisstotal time on“his
aoe endl i empt at ass

Rosselli

* indirectly) yesponsible for
He went

in the: operation.

he's not ce He did meet

had arranged to have rooms

Ve few weeks ' after the Bay

hat name he registered under,

neyw_CIA Tee CIA want named Harvey:
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3 pation. in Florida was three i

felt sorry for"'the ‘poor bastards left on the beach. "He felt

having encouraged them many of them to participate ©
home and stayed in Las Vegas and Los Angeles for awhile.
of Pigs, Rosselli was contacted by| Maheu or O'Connell,
with Jim O'Connell in Florida a few weeks later. They
at the Airport Hotel.  Rossellijwas not sure as to what.
t this meeting in Florida

met! Harvey, Rosselli was told

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The first tim


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thy, | |
Hagyey wanted)ito know all that Rosselli knew abou aD. i
Harvey toTd/him at this meeting to have no further contact TER Maheu
and that he} should not talk) further with Giancana.” He also} said that he, Harvey,

was in charge, of the operation and that Maley should take"—se that Rosselli should
take his orders from Harvey. [At this poin f;the original project. using pills, .

was considered defunct.

After ‘uhis first meé ind, Rosselli again contacted his Cuban people. —He~
: ltri iGy. RoSSelli made several trips wit ey_in Florida,
some down in |the Keys to see what type Of operations were||continuing. One o

the projects |Harvey had Rosselli doing was verifying CIA reports by using Rosselli's .

own people ‘who were in frequent contact with!Cuba. The intelligence reports dealt
both with personalities/in jthe Cuban hierarchy, as well as differentongoing
operations. | {Rosselli paid his own bills wrk before the Bay, of Pigs but after, Harvey
would usually pick up the tab.’ | { oS

to try ™@ for a second

Harve I approached Ross
Castro; time to assaSsinatéCaba[$]

and were much stronger. Ha ijls, then Rosselli gave those
six pills to] his ene contact. There were no special instructions on haw’

Ake w to handle the'!pills and his Cuban contact said that they would. be passed into Cuba
and used. | |: . | 1
. - At thisitime, Rosselli had no ongoing contact with Maheu, but may have run

into him in Los Angetes. Maheu knew that Rosselli was still working on the Cuban

project and. that he, Maheu, was out. Rosselli never got any report back on what

happened to the: six pills butihe assuedthas theta bee unsuccessful. He did
Ibs hear a xumeri report over a!radio or TV station, that Fidéel'|Castro was deathly
Til, but then, shortly thereafter, he recovered. :

; :

Rossel 1‘ arranged for the CIA ‘to supply, a panel truck loaded with cacy es
or use byjhis Cuban contacts to make two or: three-manned party raids into Cuba,
sassinating Castro and qverturning the government.

hopefully a

oj . | i i ad

During ithe Cuban missile crisis, Rosselli was in Chicago. He contacted
Harvey at Harvey's mother's home injIndianapolis and left| his number in Chicago.
Harvey thenGalled him, told him to!go to Washington, D.¢,:| From Washington, D.C.,
Rosselli traveled to Florida where lhe stayed for the duration 6f the Cuban missile -

crisis. He,j:at times, would,: through his Cuban contacts || attempt to verify the
location of ithe Russian missiles in.Cuba. Rosselli claimed that this had been

OF wi I successful! After the Cuban missile crisis, Harvey called /Rosselli and told him

ee)

to stop all {contacts with any and all pérsons involved in! past Cuban missions.
Harvey never, ;

stated why the missions were being called off:
Ve . : he : He .

yt . ; !

The only, money that Rosselli ever put up was $800 to buy gas for the speed-

boat that would deliver the two or three-man teams to Cuba] to do guerrilla operations.
He stressed throughout the| interview that he had never received any money and that
besides this $800 he had never given any money for. His|last contact with Harvey

was in June lofitt 1963 on-shortty there~befere, when Rosselli found out that Harvey

' was being transfered to Rome and he! made a. special trip to| Washington to say goodby —
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Ores. tha for a ee on x Dan R osselli itwo|stories. The first
oin

em n

‘ond was [that there was a real

Rosselli had not heard of the names Dub

ited States.
Harrison. Het ‘admitted that. | Harvey had discussed the tap wr@i him, but both Harvey
an and Rosselli were pissed off aixthke that the operation hall gone on. Giancana
obviously knew about the tap. Maheu did ask Rosselli to get. bail money for the
Atwo tappers}| w who were caught and thrown in jail. Maheu suggested that Rosselli
i ats could get a hotel to turn over the bail money. ‘Finally, Mr Rosselli arranged
to have a man |witegreen carnation in his lapel meet with {Me, Doakes' for a transfer
of the bail| money . He never received any of this money back: Rosselli claims
that he did not know what type of tap went on. He admitted. that he had been
questioned by. the FBI but he gave no answers and he knew that Maheu had been
questioned Pie FBI. if :

During; Hs early contacts with’ Maheu in 1959 and ‘60! tin setting up the
Cuban operation, Maheu was setting up a guard system for different Hughes!
operations,|| Such as Hughes Aircraft or other corporate inferests.

tcan' t remember whether. he ever introduced Siancana as Mr. Sam
ims to have no business relati jth

2 ae

Rossel
Gold. He ¢
only b Si céjmachines in Las Vegasi) |He ran those by himself
and had no Léntact with Giancana. When asked about Joe Santa Trafficanto,

Rosselli stated that he used him only as an interpreter but | not as a contact for

recruiting other Cubans for, his mission.

‘tl {

_ Mr. rit Waddeng stated that. the was receiving no fe. ees

for his representing Rosselli, now. |The status of Mr. Cantillon or Mr. Scherr
was not wacl ar. There was, discussion as to the Committee paying the expenses
of Mr. Rosselli's transportation from Los Angeles and there}was discussion as to

the limits ,), if any, to be placed on':the Committee's inquiry of Mr. Rosselli's
contacts wi th the Cubans, how they. had been developed, and: what other operations
did go on. }! ( | . Hy bo

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1) reference to Briniuer and Oswald.
Below that McLaney brothers and
fo Victor. Espinosa and Frank Sturgis.
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New Orleans sonally a. asinitraitor if he doing something wrong in the debate. When he saw the Y

tion @ photo- : ; guidebook | for Marines, he smiled to me, and he told me; “Well, listen, Carlos]
Orleans, La., don’t try ito ido un Invasion with that guidebook for Marines, because that is aul):
3 given to a : old one.and|that will be a failure." That was his Joke in that moment. :
record, given we went to the debate, and I think that you have the whole history!) :
+, you have the transcription and everything, [so} that I don’t have

to go insid ‘that, because that is ‘subjective, not objective. You have the ob:
lo the same, jective, andi that is the debate. b:

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Mr, LIEBE That is right. We; do have a transcript and we listened to it i

the tape iigtinignt ¢ over at the television station too.
Mr. BRENGuIER. And there Ig so

my

mething that I want to show you too. I told} '
“idel Castro, to you abou the training camp that were across the Lake Pontehartrata, PH
cht to invade Mr. LIgDELER, Yes. i
fates will do Mr, BRINGUIER, [Producing newspaper. ] At the beginning of August in the (|.
right, ~ . Diario Lasismericas from Miami for September 4——- : |
ny friend to | Mr. Lieblter. For September 4,/1963? |, !

Mr, BRiNGuren. That is right. [Indicating photograph. This ts the spy
who was inside the training ean;

in The Christian Democratic Movement turned '
him over tolt the FBI, and the FBI was questioning him in Miami. The Christian A
: : Democratic, ‘Movement found a ‘letter, according to this information, from this :
on my friend guy diredidl to Carlos Lechuga, former, Cuban Ambassador to Mexico and nowy
‘here and he | ; Cuban Ambhssador to the United, Nations in New York. In‘that letter the spy;
ve Fair Play - Thandez, was warning Lechuga that they have to be alert from that

od this after
that eonver-

Fernando |
date to August 8, and the day that Oswald came trying to infiltrate my orga:
nization wasjon August 5. This’ sounds for mé strange in all this matter. | !

{Indica tiie. ] Here is another interview from Fernandez here 8 days later. °

horities, be-

uowledge of Mr. LIEBELER, You are referring to a copy of the saine newspaper but for the
‘ront of Ed date of Sépteiaber 6, 1963, on the front page of which——-
Mr. BaiNobrer., {Indicating} Here. “Fernanda Fernandez is in favor of
coexistencality With the Communist ‘regime of Castro.” That is the title ing}!
. Council of Spanish. TH i Ha
friend and Mr. Liegeter. Let me see if I can! understand what you are saying. You say! 4
ier all the . that Fernalides wrote a letter to Lechuga? nap
hat Oswald Mr. BrrxGuren, Fernandez wrote a a letter to Léchuga in Mbxteo. Fl ia
Oswald had Mr. Lirnen Ler, T Lechuga is a member of the Castro government? h . 4
Ve gave all _ Mr, Brivaprer. Right. 4 i ;
4, somebody Mr. Lirgeter, He is now Ambassador to the United Nations? An
tebate, Mr. Brrxevier. In New York; right. : a :
day of the Mr. LIEBELER Fernandez is the person who was the Castro'spy who had in-}li}
the time of |

filtrated thejtFaining camp in Louisiana? H '
- Mr. Brivgurer. For the Christian Democratic Movement here in Louisiana,’

Mr. LiEBELER, ‘Now the Christiun Democratic Movement : is—what? Pro-'j|| |

dit Stuckey
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linke hands . Castro? Hi i ; { i i
wat Stuckey Mr, BrtNauier. Anti-Castro. [. ot ‘|
velleve that Mr, Lrepbt'ek. It is ‘an anti-Castro organization? a We
: to Oswald Mr. Brrvaurer, Yes; they were|training Cubans over here! to make a com- { fn | :

to him as mando act in. against Castro, but they find out that there was a Castro spyiti| ye
‘+t one Com- inside the’ ng camp, and they went back to Miami with the people and with i
ommunisn, him, and ithey turn him over to the FBI. I think that after that the leader |
vat I don't for the Christian Democratic Moveuient—or that the FBI didn't found nothing, Hi]
ile way. I because wasitiot against the law to'shy inside an anti-Castro organization. Itlj// H
‘ommunist, the law to spy inside the U:S..Government but not inside the anti-} :
‘hat if any zation, And my feeling—and this is the question that I am asking |||!
" something myself—in)Néw Orleans we are about 900 miles from Miami; In Miami is where’!

me to me, the headquarters of all the anti- Castro groups. I conld not’ find any. reason j{i
‘ve nothing for Oswald] to come to me and offer ‘we his service to train Cubans In guerrilla ‘|| | - iV
answered warfare att the same moment when there Was a secret anti-Castro training camp;

the wrong in New Orleans ond h Castro spy was inside that training camp. That for me!

it moment. is—because, lit he was willing to infiltrate one active organization, he will Bo! i

ebook for directly tolMiami and he will offer his service over there in Miami, but not inj)

vill happen New Orleans jhere it is not publicly knuwn tha. :here wag something going on },

vy him per. at that moment. I bdlieve that thatavas’ the ouly time here ‘in New Orleans that);

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fepetng ilke that, and tt was a coincidence.
me, and that Is | that. when Oswald left! the eity he went to |
dithe ‘letter from Fernandez that was intercepted here was to. Mexico |

Mexleo, and the Fernandéz letter |

sia visit ‘the Cuban consulate in
was to, the Gack Ambassador to Mexico, For me, that {s a big doubt.

Mr, Lientien. ‘Go|
GUIER. You see, after t
radio station here in

copy, I could!give you a copy.

New
{to yur ‘Congressman askh

A lonfessed Marxist"
before the: ‘assessing
Mr. Seri Do you have another copy of this?.
TER. I have the original of that. You can have that.

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| commiinications media her
! No, August 21,
ugust 21, 1963?
Be Abgust 21, the night of the debate. /
. I mark it as “Exhibit No. 8” to your deposition, and I have
al you initial it? a

Mr, - Beanie!

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Mr. Liest BEER. Le
given to see]

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Mr. Bar RING er Au

otieR. n.. That. is right.
E You indicated that
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a ist 31 TER. That

Liga vald came to you offering to assist in the military training |
of coe :
. That is right.
t that time, there was, in fact, a training camp near New

Mr. can ‘Phat

Mr. Lr TEBELER, For |the ® training of

t a
Mr. LIEBELER !

. ou ‘are tying th
sibility that oF

Mr. Litton
cause Mr, \Férna (
Mr. Blawolite. ‘Thi :

‘ that Fernandez

ilasked, Oswald himself, to try to infiltrate that camp for your
crgunteatibn . |

itr Is that correct? \ ; .

, the only thing that I don’t believe is that Fernandez
y to Oswald.
side the United States’
\ Wald the order to try

had told nivot etl
some pedple | out

he debate, the same night ot the debate, I:

New Orieans and the local, papers and the ||.
United Prey international office, and II gave a press release, -
Igavea copy to the Secret Service.’
The eee teresting thing is the four things that I asked to the Secret |

that this is the second one where I sald,
Ing for a full investigation, of Mr. Lee H.

I Have marked a copy of the press release distributed to the
ale New Orleans, on August 16, 1963:

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zat me go over rote! ot thig testimony that! you have just if
Fernandez | wrote to Mr. Lechuga a letter :

on guard up untn August ar
ist 8, that is Hight. . | i

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Oswald had come to your store or offices

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people for military action against Castro?)

be up fn. your mind by cng the pos-

vald was, in fact, a Castro agent?
eR..That ig right.
did know about

‘the ‘existence of this training camp, be |
had already himself infiltrated that training camp?

baa told Oswald about the existence of this

ph

I'believe is that Fernandez had informed
if and these. pecple had informed Oswald and
infiltrate the Cuban group here in New

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And there is another | j

If you want a ‘ft

And that was 3 months | I

Mr, Lrenever. And Mr. Fernanc

‘aware of approximately the time

fore, Indicated to Lechuga that 1
discovered as an attempted infiltr.
Mr. Burnauter, I beg pardon?

Mr. Lizvecer. As I understand

lates: to the fact that Fernandez

will be In danger,"—up until abe

anything to do with Oswald?

Mr, Brinaurer, Well, what I thi
on August 5 Oswald came to me «
same period of time. Somethin

Orleans, that there was a secret
of the Pair Play for Cuba Comn
-New Orleans. Those are the fact
not sure ubout. I just want to s.
connection.

Mr. Litseier. Now it doesn’t see

handing out literature in the atre
to infiltrate the anti-Castro moven

Mr. Brinaurer. Remember that

‘after I told him that IY don’t hay
that here there Is nothing, and th
went openly to do that before t
he went openly to do that after he w

Mr, Lrenecer. Do you know of .

in the pro-Castro movement and t
information to Oswald—conducted

Mr. Barneurex. No.
Mr. Lresecer. Would you have a

ag a result of your anti-Castro ac
person as this, do you think you -

Mr, Brinaurer. Beg your pardon
Mr. LIEBELER. Tf there were suc

Castro movement who had been v.
would have had access to that in
find out about it?

Mr. BRINGUIER. You see, that ts

have a lot of persons. There ar:
who are anti-Castro. Even amui.
agents here in the city and you «

But there is something else: Th.

ig located in 117 Decatur Street, j-
the owner of the Havana Bar Is
over there, gave the information |
before—that Oswald went to the
lemonade. He was with one Mexi
drinking the lemonade, he start tu
to be a Cuban capitalistic, and thu
Tle was telling that that was too n
moment, Oswald feel bad at that
out to the sidewalk to vomit outsid
“the Ilavana Bar told me that the ¢
the same one that one time the FBI-
Immediately because that was a pr:
August 15 and August 30 was th:
because I start to find out all thes:
before, because before I did not
nothing of this before te me. Be:
the owner of the Havana Bar can.
cnhuse he already. saw one automol-
one of thein-the one who had ber

ee 2 neta
+ 7 te weer
3 wag 19 Metos
Parmamies utter
Zz doubt.
of the debate, I
. papers and the

If you want a
d to the Secret
.@ where I said,
- of Mr. Lee H.
at was 3 months

istributed to the .
ust 16, 1963-——

tion, and I have

t you have just
echuga a letter

oa

+ store or offices
allitary training
camp near New

. against Castro?

sidering. the pos-

‘aining camp, be-
‘ing camp?

‘existence of this
t camp for your

- that Fernandez
‘ez had informed
«med Oswaid and
voup here in New.

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eLeER. And Mr. Fernandez was, on this theory, aware of that land
approximately the time’ Oswald. would make’ this attempt, and, the
hdicated to Lechuga that. there would be some; danger of Oswald b
discovered ag an attempted infiltrator? ;
Mr, Brinourer, I beg pardon?! I don’t understand the words.
Mr) {EBELER. Ag I understand, part of the hypothesis: here, the theo
Intes fie fact that Fer nandez said to Lechuga, “We must be careful,
danger,’—up until about August 8 Now does that statement)
to do with Oswald? : mn i
nourer. Well, what if think is this: He-send that letter to Lechuga; 1
t 5 Oswald came to me offering his service to train Cubains, all
iod of time. Something that never was “happening here In
that there was a secret ‘anti- Castro training: camp, and the chat

-
ry,

é i

Those are the facts. I don’t want to tell something that
I just want to show you that tremendous coincidence 0
i

ies ELER. Now it it doesn’t bein likely, does it, that Oswald would go arou
out literature in the i
trate the dati Castro movement? : :
re RINQUTER. Remember that that was after I turned down his otter! and
Ito old him that I don’t have nothing to do with military activities; and:
ene e there is nothing, and that I turned down completely him. He aight
went |[0} jenly. to|do that before the attempt to infiltrate the training camp,
rn penly to do that after|he wv as turned; down. | : :
tf of any conceivable assdciation between anybi

[EBELER. Do you know, LY
tn| en 1- Castro movement and Oswald that could have acted asa source io
eit pee Oswald—conducted: the orders ts to him? ‘| te
« ; ;
it EDELER. |woula you have { any way of obtaining information of that)s
sult of your anti-Castro, activities and contacts? If there were suc
| this, do you think you would be: likely to Know about it?

ae ELER. [re there were éuch a person, that Is to say, some agent of
ovement who had been working with Oswald, do you think that
ve, bad! access to that! information or you would have been lik ‘
find ou tlabout | ic? ‘ ; ,
EBRINGUIER. You see, that! "5 a hard question, because here in the city: ‘you'

have! al hot of persons. There ‘are some who are pro-Castro, there are many, :
who /arejanti-c -Castro. Even among the Cubans you 'could have some Castra,
{bere In} the eity and you could not: have control of everybody. i ae
utithe eis something else; The owner of the Havana Bar—the Havana
ated n 117 Decatur Street, just two door or three door from my stor
wer of the Havana Bar‘ ig a Cuban; and he and one of the employees
aver| there, gave the information to me after Kennedy's assassination—jnot:
beforesithat Oswald went to the Havana Bar one time, He asked for soine ;

lemon} de. He ¢ was with one Mexican at that moment, and when Oswald Wasi
drinking/the lemonade, he start to say that, sure, the! owner of that place thed:
to be Je|Geban| capitalistic, and'that he argue about the price of the lemonade,

tl {too much for a lemonade, and he feel bad at th
I gwald feel bad at that’ moment-—he bad some, vomits and he
out te isidewatk to vomit outside on the sidewalk, : These persons here
the Ha: a Bar, told me that the jguy, the Mexican, who was with Oswald,
Hohe that one time the FBI told them that if they will see him, call thes
immediately because that was a! pro- Communist. I reinember that was between
Aueust| 15] ¢ and lAugust 30 was that period of time. | I could not locate that
becausell start to find out all these things after the Kennedy assassination|} jot
before, Because before I did). not found any connection. They did not: ‘told
t t this before to me: | Between the 15th and the 30th the brother, :
of the Havana Bar dame to my ‘Store asking me to call the FBIlD
slalready saw one automobile passing by the street with two Mexican 1
m the one who had: been with «-swald in'the bar, and be told)

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‘August 9.3

‘publicity for

Fair Play f :
casion in D

Jeans. Ther
Lee Osbor ney

New Oran
first distribute
vicinity of the
wharf in New
in downtowt

Committee

Cuba

i

ad printed a han

1 neh! of the Fair
his Idndbills and

ofa dispute it
16, 1963. Holl
at. his own re
appeared brie
debated over
guier, one 0

attempted tol

associated 524i"

president of,
name that Osi
Marina Osw, ]

it rhymed wil th

New Orleans|!
she did not
national FP:
operation on
Orleans polit
at meetings

Oswald's
shrewd polit

reluctance’ to
himself to ot
was justifie
time untruth?
national dixe
1963, Oswaldi,

have rented|| fp y
obsure | reasons’ bythe renters, they said something
ag ect, T'm sure you. understand.” 33
rs were distrubed” “? and that he continued to

later for sor
about remo

ib
“thousands ‘

“to keep a
V. T. Lee, |
of FPCC,

eee an anti-Cas

nid si

oF idel, 327 to her

i The chapter.

or ganization. 329
rald’'s part in spi
tht it |

H |
cause or for hims

,

3s

FPCG activities

. I
ireulat

3 throu

stated {t] ithat he was

lhe attajtuted his Taek of support to an attack by Cuban
|

ringito the best lof any ability. rss3

rnaterials on one , uneventful oc-

sometime during thé period April 6-24, 1963,%*
ublic! identification
late May and early June of 1963, under the name

with that cause was in New Or-

abil headed ‘in large letters “Hands

plication form for, and a membership card in, the

Play for Cuba Committee.” He
other mitterial uneventfully i in the

Ww riéans on Augist 9, 1963; and was arrested because
pithree anti- Castra @uban exiles, and again on August
| " ing his arrest, he; was. -interviewed by the police, ‘and

Hon | a radio program 32h and, on August 21, "1963, he
o station WoDsw New Orleans, with Carlos Brin:
} Cuban exiles who: had been arrested with him on
nguier claimed that on August 5, 1963, Oswald had

t 20 organization with which he was
7

publicly engaged iin the activities described above,
y was Ih product of I his imagination. x Thei imaginary
nonexistent chapter was named A. J. Hidell,2** the
d used when he purchased the assassination weapon.”
she signed that name, apparently chosen because

husband's membership card in the

She testified that he threatened to beat her if

r had never, been chartered by the
Tt appears fo. have been a solitary-
te of ‘his misstatements to the New .

had 35 members, 5 of which were usually present -
oh werelheld once a month. a30

Play: ‘for Cuba activities may be viewed as a very
1 toper ition in which one man single handedly created

elf. It is also evidence’ of Oswald’s

bscribe [events accurately and: of his need to present
well as to himself in a light more favorable than
ity: This is suggested by his misleading and some-
statements in his letters to Mr.
of Ik FPCC. In one: of those letters, dated August 1,
‘ote that: an office nwhich he had previously claimed to

V. T. Lee, then

had ‘been *promply closed 3:days

He wrote that

rough his post office box ‘which he endeavored

Tn his letter to
then’ alone! in his efforts on behalf


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exiles in a street dem

alone, 334 ;

HN
cover any evidence él!
in which Oswald wig 1

tioned above, whielt:
letter ta,V. T. Lee.
anti-Castro activitie
incident, 38 Police

part prior to August iy |

Hones which a

lteratnfe at the’ Dahl j

general jtenor of Oo
ported his report on

de
made against him an

gests that his previous}:

greatly exaggerated!
ORLEANS, LA.” wi
in his possession’ at

investigation was nat

though.
maintained offices ¢

Commission has not|k een able to find any other indle ration that Oswald
\g

had rented an office i
of public activity:
seems to be no basis
of circulars, especial]

J
and actually had only

that he received any
tional headquarters.
‘In another letter t
that he had appeire
program ‘over WDSs
of which
as well-as people i tv
branch.” 3 WDSU}
can Focus,” 82
Post,” on
17, 1963.53 Tt appe:
all of his FPCC neti
more abont the true
New Orleans.

Oswald? Ss statements

and invitations to deb

attention as he must have

and as ‘helwas to som
The limited notoriet
fracas and i in the sub

to satisfy him. He exa

408

he was “Fook

it did develop, (

Stuckey,
which Oswalld|

eb

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the Commissi

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Orleans,

ext letter to

ion and bein

‘ ‘ i: ee
ion. has 1 not. been able to un-

he ever rattacked ahy street demonstration
cl, except. for the Bringuier incident men-

ter Osw aldiwrote the bove

i
ier, who seemed’ ‘tolbe familiar with many

w as not aware of any| such

also fail to reflect any activity on Oswald’s
except for the uneventful distribution of
eet wharf in June: 337 Furthermore, the

MV. T: ‘Lee, i in which he sup-

ie Bringuier incident: t swith

hewspaper clippi
of an attack

While the legend

to
ie fact. that ana

@! for| | 1:

\ ew, Obleans. In
ld’s part befor
1 clalin that he

Ltd
anti

| wi ith
ted

in joining

‘hen he firs

in his lett

mped on some I
t

me ‘of his arrest in New Orleans, extensive

connect Oswald with that address, al.

‘period ending early i in, 1962.399

inl amount

; of
ee, ¢ dated’ August! 1%, 1963,}Oswald wrote
ry William Stuckey’ 5 15- -mhinute television
iV called “Latin Almeri ican Focus” as a result
callers and

ing reporting ¢ the event; sug-
by' Guban exiles was atleast
(‘FPCC 544|Camp St. NEW
literature that Osw: ald had

had
The

nti- -Castto | organization
Hh

view of the limited amount
8 Augtist 9, 1963, there jalso
lad disttibuted ¢ thousands”

‘high had claimed to have pr inted only 2,000
printed. Tn: addition, there i Is no evidence

of: materials; from thelna-

bora Mt
i il:

invitations! to debate’s lect:
the FP, C. Ch New Orleans

o prégram of any kind'ealled “Latin A meri-
d airadio program called “Latin Listening

heard for less
ald had only « one e
ent of Bringuier’s attem pting to learn
the alleged

than 5 5: minutes on August
jcallet rin response to

FPCC “ergwinaton in

at he hoped to be flooded with callers
ivould have made him a real center of

t arrived i in the’ ‘Soviet. Union

t when he returned to the [United States.
rald received] as a’ result! ‘of, the street
‘dio debate was apparently not enoigh

ers to Vi. HT Lee i in an appar-.
| Oot
rep |

:

“oily bautioned”™ by the if
support T had leaving ne’:

a copy of the charges 4

OSWALD DISTRIBUTING FAIR
ORLEANS, AUGUST 16, 1963 --
BILLS ON WHICH HE HAD ST.

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prother o£ } fa f qi Hiemt each. gab Te
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the Attorney Gonaral ~e eat Pie POctobor 29, "3.962

we Ot WCE OF ys

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if . a .

} eros : Director, TBI Me EIVIEED SO ,

sunjrer: TTDEL CASTRO \
UNTEONAL SECURLTY - CUBZ

We have an informant who furnishes data concerning
eriminal matters and who is close to high officials of the
Teamsters Union. He has many contacts with hoodlum and
' gambling elements throughout the United States, He is most
concerned that his relationship with the F£i not be revealed
since he feels certain that, if his cooperation becomes
known, he will be killed immediately

On October 22, 1962, the informant volunteered to
our Los Angeles, California, Office that he believes he could
arrange to have fidel Castro assassinated, He explained
that some of his underworld acquaintances, such as Meyer Lansky,
in the past lave had close cemneclions/in Ouba whoreaby ey
were able to “buy! practically any Cuban official oz to
accomplish almost anything they wanted to do in Cuba, He
believes some of these underworld figures still have channels
inside Cuba through which the assassination of Castro could be
successfully arranged.’

Pp a Retro et eat i tach ar Ate rere = POLITE SS wiert net hee ie ces AR tm +,

pagans -

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aps gage ARS SATO Sarge ib tice aE Bad As pete Us Raye bee

Tee COULD IDELTETY CONPINENTIAL so,

sea'f aie Td Wipe bate i
United states Government is interested in . having the attempt
made, he would raise the necessary money and would want nothing
‘from the Government except assurance that such an undertaking
would in no way adversely affect the national security. He
expressed confidence in his ability to accomplish this mission
without any additional contact with Government representatives
“and with | a, minimum of contacts with private ind pyrene

sey

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109-339 Be ae DEPARTMENT OF SUSTIZE y Hy

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RECORDS BR ARCH [0

ATTOUNEY GENERAL

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7 oP somes sa toe I
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Book V, p. 13 Intelligence files in mid-1963 documenting
series of meetings among major leaders
of anti-Castro movement. Such a report
is attached. Attention to the cast of
characters: i.e., Artime, Maceo, Somoza,
Carlos Prio.

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zi: on Anguat 235 1963, ALFREDO pORJAS - intelligence

ae chief of the vovimiento de ReeuperacLon Re yolisionsx+° GRR)

Ba, anci-Ch Ste ovgem eaten t of MARVEL ARTLINE , edavices chat the
jog OF E CARLOS BARD TA is a dissident LOUD s BORJAS
eros his contacts in the jatrer or genLZacsor s
“J that only about five members of BAROIN S

ye time of the Junsc 205

+o Cuba at &

aida the cRG press releases
SF epLLLe: an

and destroyed any
had up ¢O that time ‘
AN, AWTONIO ACEO and AR ea

Le. scandal weed

oeoranent
Miami» Florida.
5 2h ona a series of

meetinne » in Xa
exile a an
Ne KO2A claame

i Republins ht

these RESTLOLS 9

press fdencs
presidents Are “ad 4
of training amps s military equip
from which to attack the presenu governm
d that his meetings with the

operathor i
Cuba. ovo! indLeare

pre,

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& i Bet: * arenes ie iaalaceatinaatel — a
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Bi . presidents of the several Central American Republi« 8

and the leading figures among the Cuban exLles iim iia. .
New York «nd Yashington, were known to have the sanetion
of the United Seates Government. On july 16, 1962,
sozozh left Miami and returned to Hiearaguc.

on July 15, 1963, the Niemi News" contained
an artiels stating that there ig growing apeculation in
Miemi that Attorney General ROBERT KEWEEDY Ls quiccly
backing eartain Cuban exiles, such as MANUEL ARE INE SUECA
and the so-called govozA Plan. It i3 noted that VANUKL

ern

ARTIME BUESA is the kead of the PRR, an antL=CASin

organization.

,
a

On July 15, 1963, MU T-3, who has been active

in Cuban revolutionary matters for the past five yearss
advised thst wie belug-listed persons are seme of foe

better-kuom Cuban exile leaders who met with SOslOZA during
his recent visis to the United States:

wo

SANTIAGO ALVAREZ RODRIGUEZ, Comendos L

LAUREANO BATISTA FALLA, Movimiento Democrats
Cristiano (MDC)

ANTONIO. VECIANA, Alpha 66

“gixro MESA, MRR oo

JOSE MORELL ROMERO, Cuban Committee of Liberation
CARLOS PRIO SOCARRAS, former President of Cuba

| RECEIVED FRO

MAY 7 1976


VM 105-1742

MANUEL ARTINE, MRR
EUSEBIO KUJAL, labor leader
JOSE BOSCH, Cuban industrialist °

‘On July 26, 1963, SANTIAGO ALVAREZ RODRIGUEZ
advised he had talked with LUIS SOMOZA about four hours
while SOMOZA was in Miami during the middle of July, 1953.
ALVAREZ said chat it is his opinion SOMOZA wee aehing &S
an intesmadiary between the United Svates Government aud
the Cuban exiles.

On August 20, 1963, ALVAREZ advised

: eloped eoncerning the SOMOZA plans;
not clear what somozA is offering, oF what tke
Government's position or actitude ig in this matter. ALVAREZ
said it is obvious somozA cannot afford, either as a private
individual or a representative of the Nicaragezn Goverament ,
to back such a military program by Cuban exiles, and will
have to have the backing and support of the United States
Government to go on with his plan.

has yet de

On July 30, 1963, FERMIN PLELTES, member of the
Executive Committee of the MOC, advised that about a week
ago, a Nicaraguan Army officer visited the 'DC Keagdquarters ,
and in the name of SOMOZA, offered camps, military equipment
and bases in Nicaragua. This individual algo offered to
pay the expenses of moving the MDC operations to Miears gua.

FLEITES explained that the MDC bad taken no
positive aetion concerning this matter, and had adopted a
wait and see" policy to escertain what attitude the
United States Covernment would take concerning this matter.

J e teh wo dee

MAY or Mire 7.

DOJ

noe
fe

MM 105-1742

On August 7, 1963,
Secretary of Rescate Democra

that wierr 0%
of 1963, VANUS
Yemoersuiao Revo Lus
in Hiewi and New York.

VARONS left for Miearagua on August 1, 1063,
with SOMOZ4, and ic expected to re

week.

On September 1
definite head been es
vieit to Nicaragua,
sorioZs Plan is, uncertain.

MARIO DEL CARAL, meet Lve
tico Revolucionerio, advised
“OZA vas in the United States during July
L AWFOMNLO DIE VABRORA , head of the Resaace
jonario (ROR), conferred wish sone

ot ARS

At the juvitation of SOMDZA., . +

co agian confer
curn co Iiemdi ia above a

0, 1963, CAR\L adviced thet nothing
stablished as a result of YAROTA' Ss
and that the future of tha propoged

On August 13, 1963, TAUREANO BATISTA FALLA,

militery leader of the mbC, ad
returned from Nicaragua, where he
SOMOZA, who made no commitmen 2
sowozA showed great interest in the Gyo

- plan existed.

problem, but offered no positive

armg or training camps.

art £ A
VLE St Lea

ts or indicated .n7 defir

te

that ke fetd recently

had conferred with
fees

ban
help ox aid in the way of

BATISTA FALLA said that CARLOS PRIO SOCARRAS »

former President of Cuba,

time, conferred with SOMOZA ,
offers o£ positive aid. BATISTA explained
ly returned from the Domini

had just previous

wag in Nicaragua ec the same
but did not. re

eaive any

By
ay
Le
>

a.

(DR), and although PRIO and JUAN Bosca, President of the

DR, had been friends for many years,
in the DR.»

obtain any military bases

Oa August 22, 1963, RUBEN DE LEON, former C
~Ordinator of the anti-CASTs0

Minister of Defense and Co

my re rye
: mp Set yy re
an lage PR
Lhe 4, 9") TENSE
ae | a batt ft fa read
et
. i

MAY 7 39%

DOJ

PRIO wen unable to

uban

8.


MM 105-1742

organizxtion Armed Forces of Cuba in Exile, stated that
about @ month apo, LUIS SOMOZA told EMILIO NUNEZ PORTUOsDO,

Us

former Cuban delegste to the United Mations (UN), bast
torsey Genaral (AG)

fo he (§0:0zZ4) had talked to United gtates At
a ROBERT KEWNEDY.

AG KENNEDY reportedly salt it was necesss
SOMOZA to work ous the Cuban probiein and to unt C
exiles. SOOZA recommended that MANUBL ARTINE BUESA ba
designated as the leader of the Cuban exiles.

; DE LEON advised that there vias later
ilemi at the homa of Nicaraguan Amy Captain JOSE A LERELT
between SOMOZA and a number of Cuban exile lee
meeting, COuOZA said there was a possibility o
support for she Guban exilé anci-CASino nove wy
the exiles would have to accept ARTINE astheic leader. “here
was considerable opposition to this suggestion by the exile

leaders attending the meeting.

On September 12,1963, PAULINO SIERRA WARTINEZ
former attorney and textile mill operator ia Cuba, @ ele
he had recently visited Nicaragua and conferred with Lu
SOMOZA concerning help to Cuban exiles.

SIERRA ‘said there are no training camps in

Nicaregua or Central America for Cuban exiles, and #11 the
proposed aid and backing has progressed no further than the
talking stage. STERRA said it seems to him tha: everyone

u is waiting for the United States Government to give the ;

vie HF

* "“preen lignans’.

TEARS a eer 12, 1963, MM T-3 advised that nearly
.1j Leaders among Cuban exiles fave conferred

air ebptpaiitad
fee that the SOMOZA Plan is too big for

with SOMaQZA and now agr
Ca gig

~—DOs

9. oe

So ee


‘we 105-1742

‘

epublics to put into

central American R
and political

gomozA and the
United States. military

effect without
guppore .

said that the different Cuban military
anders now feel that SOMOZA kas nos yan .
sive commitment from the United States
Government, beanuse after two and a hal£ monthe of
conferences 5 there ara not any Cuban exile milicery
training e2imps in Central Ameriea, and che so“ocs4 Plan:

has not progressed beyond the talking steee

Til. ORGANIZATIONS

Comandos lL

wm ‘T-3 advised chat Commandos L is one of the Leading

anti-CASTRO organizations and action Zope i

SANTIAGO ALVAREZ ROWRIGUEZ, AWLONLO CUESTA and RAMON &
ains no office 4s guch, bus cont

rgide Sta

é ry oe 2 4.
The organization maint i
tion, Hiani, Plox

to use Pose Office Box 66, Rive

to collect money donations.
SANTIAGO ALVAREZ ROSRIGUEZ

advised the organization bas had no military aecivicy
gince Marek o£ 1993. The leadex ship is now puilaing che
organization eg Jncrease membership, establish different
sections, #uch a3 4 Women's Section, 3 publicity Saction ,
and commituees to raise funds. The orginization
put out a & rty-page pooklet, setting forth the aime ated
purposes of along with information
concerning pr

On July 29, 1963,

2 recently
hd

he organization,
evious military operé

tions of the organization.

gs two boars in the

ALVAREZ admitted his group ha
future for military

Miami River, which will be used in the

KeGclVED PROM 10.

MAY 7 1975


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Book V, p. 25

Page St

Helms directed Karamessinis and Angleton
to fully cooperate with the desk officer,
John Whitten, charged with investigating
the assassination. On November 24,
Mexico City cabled the names of known
contacts of Soviet personnel in Mexico
City and AMLASH's name (Rolando Cubela)
was included on that list. Nonetheless
neither Fitzgerald, Helms, Tom K or
Angleton advised the desk officer of
significance of this name.

Book V, p. 25 On November 23, 1963, the CIA

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29

Headquarters asked the Mexico Station

to stop the planned arrest of Sylvia
Duran. Karamessinis speculated that this
was because CIA feared Cuba responsible
for assassination.

Headquarters equally concerned with
Duran on November 27 and warned
Mexico City station chief that U.S.
Ambassador pushing Cuban theory too
hard.

Book V, p. 27 AMLASH's case officer omitted reference

to the poison pen in his November 25
contact report of his November 22 AMLASH
meeting on instruction from Fitzgerald.

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Book V, p. 28 "D' tells his story in Mexico City on
November 25. On November 26, Mexico
City cables details of "D" interroga-
tion to CIA Headquarters. On December l,
CIA Headquarters cables Mexico City that
the White House has been told that D's
story is a fabrication.

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Book V, p. 30

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On December 1,.1963, CIA Headquarters
cabled Mexico City that a sensitive
source ( ) has advised

that a Cubana airlines flight to Havana
was delayed in Mexico City on November 22
to pick up a passenger who rode in the
cockpit without going through customs.
This cable was found in Mexico City

file with no CIA headquarters record

of follow-up being found.

Book V, p. 35

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In December, 1963, Sullivan prepared a
memo for Hoover's aid in briefing the
President that stated that no evidence
had been developed which would indicate
Oswald's assassination was inspired or
directed by Pro Castro organizations

or by any foreign country.

r

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Book V, p. 40-41

Page 163

FBI Legat in Mexico City cabled
FBI Headquarters on November 24
that U.S. Ambassador felt Cubans
participated in assassination
effort. "Bureau may desire’ to
give consideration to polling
all Cuban sources in US in
effort to confirm or refute this
theory." FBI Headquarter's
supervisor determined this was
not desirable and would only
promote rumors.

Book V, P. 58

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The CIA investigation reflected a
Soviet orientation, with exhaustive
studies of Oswald's activities in —
re Soviet Union. There is no corres-
ponding CIA analysis of Oswald's con-

tacts with pro and anti Castro groups
in U.S. ’

63

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Page 165

Book V, p. 61- In December, 1963, the CIA learned that

a Cuban American had crossed the border
from Texas into Mexico, on November 23

and arrived in Mexico City on November 25.
He stayed in a hotel until the evening of
November 27, when he departed on a
regularly scheduled Cubana airlines flight
to Havana using a Cuban courtesy visa and
an expired U.S. passport. He was the only
passenger on the flight. In March, 1964
the Agency received a report from a

source which alleged that the same Cuban
American had received a permit to enter
Mexico City on November 20 in Tampa,
Florida. The same source said the Cuban
American was somehow involved in the
assassination.

The Agency did not follow up on this
report other than to ask a Cuban
defector about his knowledge of the
Cuban American's activities. The FBI
did investigate the reported unusual
travel but did not fully report the
results of their investigation to their
Warren Commission, Their investigation
showed that this individual had lived

in Tampa and Key West and was pro-Castro.
He had traveled to Cuba in May of 1962
and had a brother in the Cuban military
who was studying in the Soviet Union.

On November 17, 1963, the Cuban American
was at a get-together at the home of a
member of the Tampa chapter of the Fair
Play for Cuba Committee. This was the
same Fair Play for Cuba Committee that
Oswald had possibly contacted in May of
1963.

Book V, p. 63-64 In March of 1964, the Warren
Commission requested from Director
Hoover information on certain pro-
Castro and anti-Castro organizations
which were active in the U.S.-
including the Fair Play for Cuba
Committee, and Alpha 66, among
others. The Bureau furnished less
than a full and satisfactory
response and did not disclose the
fact that the CIA had operational
interests in certain of the entities
inquired about.

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Book V, p. 65 The FBI reports on Alpha 66 furnished
the Warren Commission noted the attack
on the Soviet vessel in March of 1963
but did not detail that group's
continued activity in planning and
carrying out their military operations
against Cuba. The FBI reports did not
show that Alpha 66 had been involved
with the New Orleans anti-Castro train-
ing camp.

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Book V, p. 65

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It is known that the CIA took an
interest in the Fair Play for Cuba
Committee with which Oswald was
associated. According to Bureau
documents, the Agency advised the
Bureau that they were considering

the use of disinformation that might
embarass the Committee in areas where.
the Committee had support.

Book V, p. 72

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In late July. 1964, an FBI informant
reported that the CIA was meeting with
AMLASH for the purpose of assassinating
Castro. Informant also reported that
AMLASH was unhappy with the CIA's efforts
and that Attorney General Kennedy had
refused to support the plan but that the
plan had not been completely put to rest.
This information was not disseminated
outside the Bureau at the request of the
informant. But the Bureau notations
indicate that the Bureau was looking
into an underworld plot against Castro
that might be coincidental with the
AMLASH plan. The Bureau had first been
informed of AMLASH-CIA meetings in
October 1963. That information did not
indicate assassination involvement.

Book V, p. 74-75 The AMLASH operation was insecure

prior to the Fitzgerald meeting
with AMLASH, a meeting that
Fitzgerald was urged not to under-
take by several in the Agency.

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Book V, pp.

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Page 171i

77-78

ott
pe
a A

va
Individuals outside tHe CIA had
been brought into the, operation,
and the Agency learned that one
of these individuals was in
clandestine contact with Cuban
intelligence (Cable from
European station to CIA Head-
quarters, 3/18/65). —

Book V, p.

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78 Victor Espinosa, a Cuban exile, involved

in the transporting explosives to New
Orleans in 1963, contacted INS with
information about the AMLASH operation.
This information was turned over to the
FBI.which informed the CIA. Both
agencies interrogated Espinosa in June
of 1965 and found that he knew that
AMLASH and others were planning a coup
which involved the assassination of
Castro and that the CIA had been
involved with AMLASH and others in the
planning.

Espinosa and AMLASH were life-long friends
but during the interrogation he gave no
indication that he was aware of the 1963
AMLASH-CIA meetings. Espinosa's
information noted in the 1967 IG Report
suggests a link between the AMLASH
operation and the CIA plots to assassinate
Castro using underworld contacts.
Therefore, Espinosa's information raised
the possibility that underworld figures
who were aware of the Harvey plots may
have been aware of the AMLASH operation.
CIA reaction to this interrogation was

to terminate the operation immediately.

Book V, p. 79 CIA had FBI files on Espinosa detailing
his involvement with anti-Castro exiles
and underworld figures who were operating
the guerrilla training camps in New
Orleans in July 1963. a

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Book V, Pp. 79

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Page i174

In mid-1965 the CIA interrogated Tepedino,
New York jeweler, who had been involved
with the AMLASH operation from the
beginning. The report concluded that

the subject was. deceptive during the
interrogation and withheld pertinent
information in one or more relevant
areas. Tepedino lied in response to
questions dealing with AMLASH's and his
ties to Cuban intelligence. Tepedino
stated that AMLASH had no plan to over-
throw Castro. Tepedino stated AMLASH
had strong connections with Cuban
intelligence and was probably cooperating
with it in various ways. Although
AMLASH never mentioned these connections
to his CIA case officers; Teledino

stated that AMLASH had mentioned them

‘to him and almost everyone else he had

met.

Book V, p.

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Page L745

79

The FBI made the connection between

Espinosa's 1963 activities and the

fact that in 1965 he was knowledgeable
of CIA involvement in plans to
assassinate Castro. However, there

is no evidence that either the CIA or
FBI investigated this connection

until 1967.

Book V, p. 79

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Although the CIA had received information
that AMLASH was a provocation there is

no evidence that the CIA investigated

the possibility of a connection between
its fall 1963 meetings ‘with AMLASH and
the assassination of President Kennedy.

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Book V, P. 80 A client of Morgan's had informed him

Page i?T

that the United States had attempted

to assassinate Castro in the early
1960's and that Castro had decided to
retaliate. This information was passed
to Drew Pearson who in turn attempted
to have Chief Justice Warren look into
it but he declined,

Book V, P. 81

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Supervisory personnel assigned to the
assassination investigation have
uniformly testified they do not recall
ever discussing or reviewing memoranda
which touch upon Cuban involvement

in the assassination or of Cuban
retaliation for the. CIA assassination
plots.

‘ Book V, p. 81

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According to Secretary of State Rusk
in his testimony before the Warren
Commission, 6/10/64, he stated there

was ‘very considerable concern" in Cuba

immediately following the assassination
as to whether Cuba would be held
responsible for the assassination and
what effect the assassination might
have on Cuba's position and security.

Book V, p. 84 On March 21, 1967, WFO send Headquarters
10 copies of a blind memorandum which
stated Castro employed assassination
teams for the purpose of removing
President Kennedy. Morgan's clients
were also aware of the identity of
individuals sent to the United States
for that purpose. He understood that two
such individuals were now in the state
of New Jersey. The transmittal slip is
attached to this memorandum.

Neither the President nor the Attorney
General ordered a follow-up investigation
after receiving this memo.

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Book Vv, p. 92

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In October, 1963, Soviet experts at FBI
Headquarters were informed that Oswald
had met with Vice Counsel Kostikov at
the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City.
Kostikov was a member of the KGB and

- believed to be with the KGB department

that carried out assassinations and
sabotage,

I, Frank Sturgis, have today personally delivered
to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence the

following materials:

j Envelepe. -—Q ddsaWveg

were. 923-1

RECEIVED:

For the connitted

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HY 450955 Dacld: 32423630

INTERVIEW OF MARITA LORENZE
BY FRANK STURGIS, 9/2/76

Page 1853


FS:

FS:

FS:

FS:

FS:

FS:

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Selia Sanchez, Haiti Santa Maria, Paco
and Fidel and several of his armed guards.
Okay now, what happened

Castanyava...

Castanyava

_Castanyava was the chief of the Navy.

And Fidel offered you a job or something, can you
go into that?

Well he was very fond of everything German. He

said he read and my father, you know, tried
to pacify the tourists, the passengers on the ship
because they were terrified. They thought they were
being invaded. So I helped my father pacify the
tourists and it was really a funny scene. - Then I
steered Fidel to my father's cabin and we went to
dinner and Fidel started to play kneesies under the |
table. And this was February 28, 1959 on the cruise.

And he offered you a job, right?

Yes, after about 5 hours on board ship we went back
up to my father's cabin and had drinks and exchanged
gifts, and my father and Fidel seemed to get along
very well. My father is diplomatic and they

exchanged plaques and my father's silver ashtray and

stuff like that. And he asked me, he asked my father
if since I was bilingual if I could go, come back,
return to Cuba to be his secretary since he was
getting German mail and he did not speak German and
he assured me that I would be safe and set up in an
office, and blah, blah, blah, blah. And I had
friends in Cuba anyway.

How old were you then?

Nineteen, nineteen years old.

Did you get off the ship and stay there?

No, I went back to New York. Fidel, on the bridge,
asked me for my phone number and address in New York

and said he would call me, and I just, I didn't
believe it.

Page 184

FS: ' When did he call you?

ML: The same day I arrived in New York. Because my
father took off that night for Germany again and
the phone ring, and it rang at 1 o'clock in the
morming. I guess the previous...

FS: Well he went back to Germany with the ship, right?
Where did you go?

ML: I was living with my brother in New York City.
My brother was a translator for the United Nations
and I was alone living in New York City going to
the Merchantson Banker School.

FS: Well how did you get back to New York City from
Havana? ;

ML: On my father's ship. It was the last stop on the
eruise of about 5 or 6 stops.

FS: Oh, in other words the, in other words the ship left

that night, left Havana that night...
ML: Yeah.
FS: went over to New York and then from New York went

back to Europe, right?

ML: Yes. Yes. I |thought about Fidel and he pointed out
this is my Havana and I guess I was impressed. I
.was young, I don't know. And I thought that...

FS: He called, he |called you, he knew just about what
time you were |going to arrive in New York and when
you got there jhe called you, what, the same, the same
day you got there? oO

ML: The same day our ship arrived, three days later. And I
just picked up the vhone and the Havana operator said
one moment please, the Prime Minister is on the phone,
on the line, and I heard some shouting and then I
heard "hello".

~y FS: Did he speak Guban or English to you?
ML: He spoke broken English in his hoarse voice. I guess
he was giving a lot of speeches at that time. And he
asked me, "Hello Marita, you think I don't call? I
think about you very much and I call. I keep my word.
I want to prove to you that one man's Cuban word I keep."

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ML: So, I was as surprised, I was very surprised.

Ccontd.)

FS: How long was it did you leave New York to go to
Havana?

ML: Fidel said to me, I said is this really you Fidel,

and he said yes. I am in Havana Hilton, you call

me back in room 2408, and I said no, alright I
believe you I said because how else would you have
my number. He said "I want you come back. I think
about you and [I will send a plane, my plane, and you
come back." And it was a joke really, I liked the
Cocoa Glace, it's an ice cream in a cocoanut shell,
and he had sent to my father's ship a case of it so
I would have enough for the return trip home because,
I don't know, I just talked about Havana, the island
in general. So I, and I still didn't believe him
that he would send the plane.

FS: Did he send the airplane?
ML: Yes.
FS: What kind of an airplane did he send?
ML: A.Cubana airliner with...
FS: Four engines? |
ML: Yes, with two men and two men came to the, my door.

I was living at 344 West 87th Street at the time, on
the second floor, and my brother was at a UN party
and I was home alone studying. Oh no, in fact I was
' reading a Herbert L. Mathews article on Fidel Castro
and Cuba when the doorbell rang, and it was Jesus
and Pedro
and they showed me identification. One came in military
uniform, the other in civilian clothes. One smiled,.
one didn't. One said, "Are you ready?" And one said,
"We go now. Fidel.want very much to see you."

FS: (Laughter).
ML: "And I said I didn't finish my homework yet. I was like.
= in shock. I didn't know what to do. So they said. they
~~ were staying in a hotel, that they would, the plane

would leave tomorrow, please be ready. I, meanwhile I
‘haven't even unpacked, you know, from the cruise. My

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ML: clothes were all laundered anyway from the ship and
(contd.) I hadn't even unpacked because I was worred about
. tissing two days at school.

FS: Yeah.
ML:. So I went...
FS: Well these are incidentals anyway, so, what'd you

do, you went to the airport? What airport did the
airplane, was the airplane at?

ML: Uh, LaGuard, .which is not Kennedy, it was at that

time named. something else. Idlewild, right?

FS: - Idlewild, yeah. |

ML: And...

FS: It was Idlewild airport, that's where they had the

airplane, Cubana Airlines? ;

ML: Yeah, Cubana Airlines. Got on the plane...

FS: How many people where on the airplane? 7

ML: , Me, a steward, a pilot and a co-pilot and the two .

oO guards. .

FS: Ha, ha, had -- that's funny. Go ahead. —

ML: So anyway, I met Fidel and that's when I got involved.

FS: This is more or less a background so they know her
background.

ML: Yeah that's, that's out anyway.

(Unidentified voice: "Yeah, right.")

FS: "I mean don't drag it out so much because the details

of all this thing is...

ML: Yeah.
“A FS: Is yours, you know. Go over it lightly. So you went

back to Havana, right?

ML: Right.

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‘FS:

FS:

FS:

FS:

FS:

FS;

FS:

FS:
ML:
FS:

FS: No,
ML
FS:

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Now when ,you went back to Havana you saw Fidel where?
Cause we'll go over this lightly.

I was in the.

At the Hilton?

I was driven by black limousine right to the Hilton.

And that's where Fidel was staying at the Hilton, right?

Yes, he was having an argument in his suite with Chez
Raoul and some Americans.

He was having some argument with some Americans . Do
you know who the Americans were? ;

Yes.
Who were they?

One Lady attorney trying to promote something, Muriel...

Oh this was more business or something like that?

- Yes business. Everybody was trying to promote this

and that with Fidel.

Yes, well that's immaterial.

So then I was told to go in the room and wait and the
door locked. And I was in there, in his suite, and
Fidel came in and I missed him and he missed me and
the rest is going to be in the book if I ever write it.
You'll write it don't worry. Alright now..

If I live.

Do you know approximately when you met me?

A couple months, or two months, or three months after
that.

That was very, I think you met me around what, April?
April, right. .
April of 1959, right?

Page 183

FS:

FS:

FS:

FS:

FS:

FS:

Yeah.

And I believe we met at the Riviera Hotel in the
lobby?

Yes.

That's where, when I saw...

That's what I said, a couple months.
Right.

right after that.

In April, right. And this is where we made contact
and so forth and then we saw each other a few times

after that.

In the coffee shop.

‘In the coffee shop and this is when you were recruited

to go ahead and spy for the United States and so forth
and, were you ever introduced or, to Colonel Nickels?

Yes.
Do you know who Colonel Nickels is, right. He was
the Colonel who was military attache with the American

_ Embassy in Havana, Cuba at that time, right?

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Okay. Then you started your spy thing and so forth
and so forth, alright?

Um hum.

We'll go ahead and jump a little bit and so forth.
There were several meetings that Fidel had in the

Hilton with some of the people of the staff. I was

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Right.

And, one of the time that Fidel was talking to the
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Out of Cuba.

Cuba. All the American businesses (were going to go
ahead and be nationalized because it was Cuba and the
Cuba for the Cubans.

Right.

-And so forth. And then it was suggested about well

you know the American government may not like it.
You're gonna have all the American business interests
put pressure on the State Department which would put
pressure on him and that they would be up in arms and
they would have the agents, they would send new agents
into Cuba because the CIA at that time was very close,
closely contacted, at least certain people in the CIA
had contact with the 26th of July movement. As a

_ matter of fact that they were exchanging information

with Castro...

Uh hun.

which enabled him to outwit many of the other groups
so really CIA helped Fidel quite a bit in this power
struggle that was going on in Cuba at that time. So
Fidel, with the help of CIA... ;

Yes.

‘got to be the ruler of Cuba. Now...

I would, what about, where did Fidel get most of his
guns from?

Well, you know...
To lead the revolution?

Right, you know, so forth. That's a story which we
won't have to go into and so forth because we just
(unintelligible) briefly over it. And then there
came a period of time where Fidel in all his
popularity and so forth was, now Fidel with you - he

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Yes. .

And he seduced you, right? And, which has been on
record.

Mm-Hmm.

You know, and you liked him and you actually in
liking him like a young girl thought for the future
that here's a man that I, you admired, that you
started to get an affection for him and so forth, -
and really you thought of marriage, right?

Mm-hmm.

“And in the process of being close with him, being as

the man's intelligent, dynamic and so forth, he did
force his attentions on you and naturally he seduced
you. You didn't want to but it happened.

Yes.

And you had nobody to go to because, hey, you're in
his Cuba, right? —

Iwas in his Cuba alright.

Right, now also what we were getting in this Senate
Intelligence Committee has got is the things that
Fidel has stated against the United States government
if they tried to interfere with the revolution and so
forth when the new election time comes because at that
time the President of the United States was Eisenhower
and it looked like that the Democrats were going to
win the election and he felt that if a new government,

which was discussed among the top military people, if
the new government came in and if they decided that they.

didn't like Fidel's:- policy, which Fidel was saying what
he was going to do for Cuba on an international scale,

that if the United States government decided to go and

turn against him and put pressure on him he would do

' likewise to the United States government. And he was

going to export his revolution in Latin America. ‘These

are the things that you heard...

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A number of times I was present up there for the..
Mm-hmm.

in the Hilton with all the people. Now you left Cuba
when?

Sometime in September.

In September of 1959 you came to the United States,
right?

Yeah.

And when you came back to the United States you saw
me.

Yes.

And then arrangements were made for you to go back to
Cuba and so forth.

Yes, yes.

And this is what happened with the attempt and so forth.

Right.

Now when you went back to Cuba, when did you leave

there the second time? ; ;
towards

When exactly / the end of 1959, 1960.

1959? .

'60 - I'm not sure. I'm no good at dates and all that.

I just know I went in and I took that stuff and I went

out.

Well then was it the early part of '60?

Yeah.

It had to be the early part of '60 and you came back
to Miami, right?

Right.

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“With Alex.

With Alex and myself here in South Florida. And then

when did you cease doing some work at that time?

Uh, in 19--, end of 1960.

End of 1960. When did I tell you to make contact with
Petty Humanez at his home. Do you know approximately
what time that was?

In 1960, 61.

The end of 1960, or the early part of '61, was that

then?

About the time of the Bay of Pigs.

Well, '61 was the Bay of Pigs, in April. '61. Soit
had to be before the Bay of Pigs.

Before, before, yes it was.

Yeah this is when Petty Humanez was exiled in Miami..

Right.

Beach on the island there, right?

Yes.

Alright, and you were told by whom to go over to his
home?

You.

You were told by me and you went there by yourself or
with someone else? ;

Should I name him?

Yeah. Alex?

Alex York.

Alright, Alex went with you over to Petty Humanez'
house, right. They had a gathering there with some
Cubans, and so forth and so forth. Do you know who
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ML: Big Cubans.

FS: Well when you talk about big Cubans can you name some?

ML: Top Cubans in exile, Prios, Carlos Prios

FS: President, ex-President Carlos Prios.

ML: . I don't know, there were so many, God.

‘FS: Alright, well that's, that's good enough. Anyway.
Alright, that's when you first met Petty Humanez,
alright. ;

ML: Yes.

FS: What was the idea of me sending you over there to meet
Petty Humanez?

ML: Information gathering, to find out how he was
sponsoring the Cuban exiles.

FS: Wasn't he suspected of supplying money and other

goodies...

ML: Oh, yes.

FS: to groups, where at?

ML: In Miami and outside of Miami.

FS: _ And down in Texas, right?

ML: Yeah.

FS: Training camps in Texas?

ML: Yes.

FS: Alright, he was feeding money to them also in...

_ ML: Yeah.

FS: ° Texas, right? And this is to help overthrow Castro
government, right?

ML: I would presume, yeah. I guess so.

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him at the time.

Now you got very friendly with Petty Humanez, isn't
that correct?

I would say SO.

You would say so. As a matter of fact...
(unintelligible)

As a matter of fact a love, affair developed...
Yes. .

and so forth and so forth, alright.

Yeah. .

We won't go into anything else. We'll go ahead and
jump past that. Then we lost contact with you, right?

Yes.

And in losing contact with you we, well we mentioned
sometime when they, the United States State Department
sent Petty Humanez back to Venezuela, he went to
prison, and you mentioned something about the family
wanted to break him out and you wanted to-see if I
could do it and so forth. Alright, so we'll skip that.
Anyway, I lost contact with you. When was the last —

‘time we lost contact, when was that?

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1964 or "637 ‘63 or '64 approximately, alright?
After '64, | |

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(unintelligible)

And you what, came to New York?

When the General went to jail.

Yeah, you went to South America and then you came back
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FS: Then you remarried, rather you got married here in
New York?
ML: | Oh some time passed, I waited for the General but
then I got married, right.
FS: . Who did you marry? You're gonna say, you're gonna go
ahead. and say he worked at the building with you, and...
ML: Yeah, I guess I have to. Louis John Yurositz.
FS: Alright, now one time you and him did what at what
building and the address?
ML: | We were both federal informants for the FBI in New York.
FS: You worked as an, both of you worked as undercover
agents for the FBI in New Yor, right?
ML: Me as a double because I had...
FS: You as a double agent. Now when did this start?
ML: «He was the building manager at 250 East 87th Street

in Manhattan. The building is owned by Glenwood
Management, called the Newberry. The work started
with the case agent in 1969.

FS: 1969. Who was the case agent's name, and what federal
agents, you already told me. You already told me and
they got it on record and this...

ML: They told me not to say anything.

FS: Well, honey, they got it on record and you're gonna
go ahead and send this down there because Senator
Baker knows who your case agent is, knows the CIA
agent that you were in touch with.

ML: You know I keep remembering don't embarass the Bureau
and... ;
FS: Honey, you're not embarassing the Bureau. What. you're
_ . doing is giving this information to Senator Baker's

Committee to turn over to the Justice Department in
order for them to go ahead and say, hey - you worked .
‘as an agent for them, also as a double agent, you need

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protection for you. and your kid, and if you don't go
ahead and teil them the name of these here people how
you gonna do it?

‘Mmm.

You know we get back to the same thing again. Yeah,
you're looking for protection. So far the people
you've worked with, so far this man Pucci who you
saved his life, and saved another undercover agent's
life whose working with the FBI. These people are
powerful people yet they have done nothing with the
problem that you have had right now with you, three
times there's been an attempt on your life, isn't
that correct? One time they almost threw you out of
an 18 story building. Another time you got pistol-
whipped. You did all this crap for these people
here yet they will do nothing to go ahead at the
present time, and this is on record in their own
files and so forth, yet you cannot move them to give
you or your children any protection. This piece of
tape is going to go right to Senator Baker's office,
it'll go to Howard Liebengood for him to listen to,
to evaluate it and turn this tape over to the proper
authorities which will be the Justice Department.
You can call Howard Liebengood to see if he has
received those codes from the Albanian Embassy from
me. You can call him and find out, and also you

can call him at the same time and let him know if

a tape has been turned over to him. As a matter of
fact when I get there Friday and leave this in his
office I will instruct his people in the office to
get a hold of you, because I'm gonna leave your phone
number with Senator's Baker's people, with Senator
Baker is on, has a Committee on Intelligence...

Mm-hmm.

He's got the committee. It's a new Committee that has
been formed on intelligence. See, now I am turning this
information over to the proper authorities. See. And
this information is not going to go to any newspaper

‘or anybody...

Okay, okay Frank. I have your word. It's just that I
got a hang-up, you know I guess, with them working on
practically all my adult life.

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Honey, I don't want to know everything you did in 6
years. I don't want to know everything you did
because you can' t. ;

They were like a family, they were like a family at
one time. Now when I need help they don't come

. through and they say it costs too much. It cost me
_a lot of nights in the garbage looking for Albanian

stuff, cost me.a lot of worry, cost me a lot of fear,
threats.

Alright so this is why...
(Unintelligible)

I want some stuff on this thing because if you make a

story up then how are you gonna prove, for instance,
you gonna go ahead...

No I'm not making anything up. I wouldn't lie about
it.

No, no, honey, I'm just saying. If you' re gonna go

ahead and say, hey - I broke into 33, in an apartment

building with 33 Soviet families, who did you work
for -- well I worked for the FBI. They call the FBI,
the FBI said we know nothing about it. Then you are
a liar.

No way am I going to be a liar.

I'm just saying, they're going to say how we gonna
protect this girl when she's lying to us because the
FBI says no. But if you name names and say I worked
with this man here, it's got my file, I worked over

a six year period. God damn it ~ that, that Justice
Department will say, hey baby we want to see you and
we want to see your files on this girl. And baby

they got to go and come up with it. And if they don't
come up with it they're in trouble. They're in
trouble. Now, how could they hide something when they
are working for the same people who are their bosses,
who are their bosses? They can tell you to go jump in
a lake over here. But Washington, D. C. says - hey,

I want to see something here. Why haven't you given
this people protection if all this is true. But if
they don't know, honey, how the hell are they gonna

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I guess if something happens somebody's gonna know,
you know.

Somebody has to know. Now at the beginning you and
your husband, your husband was manager...

was the building manager of this building.

And he...
Is he still building manager of that building?
Yes, but the way this . going...

Well, honey forget about it right at the present time
because we're getting at the building and we're..

Yes, yes.

He still manages the building. Alright, now, how long
has he been manager of this building?

We raised this building, we

In other words when was the first years...

We were the very first tenants in this building. We
moved. in there before anybody moved in there. We
were the first tenants. The first person to move in
was the first Secretary to the Soviet Mission.

What was his name?

Mr. Vittikoff.

And who was Mr, Vittikoff?

He was the first Secretary to Malek, the Soviet

_ Ambassador to the United Nations.

Would you say a cesspool of spies which this cesspool
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...where you and your husband worked where he was
manager, you were the first people to live in that
place?

250 East 87th Street, the Newberry, owned by Glenwood
Management, which are crooked, and that's on the
corner of 2nd Avenue, it's called the Newberry.

Okay, now, who started to move in there?

Our very first tenant was Mr. Ovinikoff, he was the
First Secretary to Ambassador Malek at the United
Nations. (unintelligible)

Alright, go ahead, keep talking into there.

And he's a little guy. He seemed like normal -people,
but I never really...

Well how many people eventually moved in there besides
this man?

Oh well the first one was Mr. Ovinikoff, the second
one I named The Stalker, the third one -- I have nick-
names...

Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute now. The

-second .one who moved in there you called, you nick-

named the |.

The Stalker.

‘The Stalker. What was his real name?

Because he, he was, he checked on the Russians. The
Russians checked on the Russians. And if a woman,
Soviet wife, got out of hand or went shopping by her-
self or did something out of the way she got pulled
back and she was under house arrest.

Alright, what was his name?

Mr. Artimenko, Artimenko. I kept, then I...

Who was the third one you gave a nickname to?

I had nicknames for all of them.

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Moonface, The Stalker...
Yeah.

The Shadow. It was my own little thing of remembering
until I memorized. We started out with the tenants’
list.

Alright, how many people were on the tenants’ list?

We had, the building consisted of 300 units, which
300 apartments, my husband had access to files. Each .
Soviet file read the same -- Permanent Mission of the ©

‘Union of Soviet Socialist Republic resident, and I

got interested. Then one day an agent came at 9 o'clock
in the morning, and my husband had been previously
working with Treasury and other agencies, including

this agent which I'll name, that's Al Chestone. —

His first name was what?

Albert, Albert Chestone.

What agency was he with?

The FBL.

Special Agent, FBI?

Yes, counterintelligence.
Sector of the FBI

Yes, political. And, my husband had known him
previously working with the Polaris missile, Polaris
missile thing. This was before I met my husband or
married him. He did something with the Polaris
missile thing. And my husband was paid by this same
agent. Anyway, we, he came daily and we went over the
tenants' list and we sort of dissected everybody in
the building.

Alright now, were you recruited by this agent?

Yes, he said are you willing to work and I said, well,
why not? He said it doesn’t consist of much, a few

‘burglaries (laughter)....

In other words this agent...

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and my husband...

And they wanted you to do some burglaries, right?
Well, I, yes.

Alright now, these burglaries, did they consist of
you and your husband doing the burglaries or you by
yourself?

Well my husband had the master keys.
Right, alright.

And..

Well when you did these burglaries...

We all did them together. They're were about 5, 6,

7 cars. One stationed in front of the Soviet Mission.
Suppose, say like they were interested in one Soviet
who they lost track of, who was supposed to be in ,
Washington, D. C., and then they found him all of a
sudden in our building because they had surveillance
across the street. That's the first thing - they set
up surveillance, a camera, high-power camera across

‘the street. That we were pointed out to. That

everybody who went in and out of the building was
photographed.

Including yourself and your husband?

Oh yeah,me especially in the morning taking my son to
school and everything... .

Right.

But, and...
Alright, now, getting back to the entries that you made
into the apartments. Once you found out that the
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FS: i You saw them leave?

ML: No, no. They were assigned, first of all we were told

that we wanted, they wanted to hit the apartment, the
‘Bureau, and I would listen and my husband looked at me
and I looked at him but it was still in the best
interests of the country, and this was a very, very top
KGB agent, a Soviet General, blah, blah, blah, he was

interested...
FS: Do you know the man's name?
ML: . Yes.
FS: ‘This General?
ML: Yes.
FS: What was his name?
ML: _ Oleg Likichev.
FS: What's his name?
ML: ‘Oleg Likichev.
FS: ~—-s Likichev. He's a top..
ML: KGB spy.
FS: Alright, and he lived in the building?
ML: Yes, with his wife and 5 year old son.
FS: Right. | |
ML: On the 10th floor.
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the building. Naturally they had surveillance out-
. side, they would know when he left...

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ML: . Very friendly. We exchanged gifts and we went to
dinner, and we were invited to the U.N., and we
exchanged. .

FS: In other words you were being guided into doing
certain things..

ML: . No.

FS: This one particular FBI agent.

ML: This one particular agent told us daily what to do.

FS: Alright now did he give you a code name or a code,
any particular code?

ML: My name, Mariuch.

FS: Mariuch was the name he gave, that he gave you, right? .

ML: Mariuch.

FS: _ Alright, it sounds Italian. Mariuch is Italian.

ML: Well he...

FS: Maria.

ML: He is Italian, too.

FS: The agent?

ML: Yes.

FS: Alright, now, when,did you ever make an entry into
this top KGB agent's apartment?

ML: . This one particular, there were several. This wasn't
the only one. ;

FS: Well, let's talk, let's talk about, the, general.

ML: Oleg was, in other words my husband and I discussed

~y it and I said, "Louis, you know,"

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Yeah, yeah, I said...
You could get caught, you could be killed.

I said suppose, you know, we're working in the precinct
on a local level - that's breaking and entering, right?
And my husband and I dis, you know we discussed it.
Now, Uncle Al - as we started to call this...

FBI agent?

FBI agent, said Look, he's a very bad person, we lost
him and we found him and he's in the building and we
want to get.in the apartment. We feel he has, for
national security reasons, we want to enter that
apartment. Louis, will you cooperate?" You know?

And my husband said, "Alright".

Did he said he had to discuss it with you?
They discussed it in front of me.

I mean did your husband say he had, he would discuss
it with you about...

No, no, but he did, but he didn't ask me because I
asked my husband later, I said, "Louis, if you refuse.
to do what Al tells us to do, me as a lookout and
Louis opening the doors for them", Louis said, Louis
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So it, it was agreed...
It was agreed that he would do it.

Alright, now what did your husband do. Did he open the
door for the agents?

Yes he did.
Did he go in, for what, one agent, two agents?
Two agents.

Two agents. Was Uncle Al one of those agents?

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No I do not.
Do not.
They came on the specific morning when they had Oleg..

You were by Uncle Al that these two agents
were coming? :

Yes.

Alright, on a specific morning?

Yes.

Alright, and..

They came as lumberjacks, one as a refrigeration
repairman. ;

-Right.

Refrigerator,. refrigeration-air conditioning repairman.

Alright, now you and your husband with these two.
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Yes.
He opened the door?

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Yes.

Did your husband go in?

' He stood at the door.

He stood at the door?

He stood at the door.

That is in case they'd come back he'd...
Right.

The fact that he is the manager of the building
standing there with two repairman.

But that he was assured, he was assured, right. °

That these two men were repairmen?

That, that just in case something went wrong with the
5 cars assigned to this job that one car would radio
that Oleg Likichev was leaving the Mission at this
moment, he is getting into his car, he is on the way
up 2nd Avenue to his residence. .
Right, and they...

You've got approximately 7 to 8 minutes...

Minutes to do what you gott do and get the hell out.

‘Do, and get out.

Okay.

So, my husband stood in the door and I was in the
staircase and they went in with a, a case that looks
like a television repair case which had high power
cameras.

Right.

And they, my husband was always annoyed because they
were sloppy.

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The Soviets are very trained, they would leave a
cigarette on an ashtray. If you knocked it over they
know immediately someone was in the apartment.

Now, when the agents, before your husband opened the
door with the pass key, did the agents look the door
over to see if there was any powder marks, tapes,
hairs, or anything, or something leaning against the
door to signify that possibly when the Cuban general,
this, not Cuban general, this Russian general, who is
a top KGB agent...

Yes.

wanted to see if somebody made an entry they would

_leave something on the door.

Yes.

They inspected the door, right? And they didn't find

anything?
Right.

Right. So they opened the door. In other words, what-
ever they touched... a

But they made a mistake inside on one break-in and
that...

Alright, now, no let's not jump. We're, you were on
this one particular thing.

Alright.

These people did go in, they did what they had to do
with the cameras and so forth, evidently these were
hidden....

Yeah.

cameras that they installed some place in there, right?

No, it was microfilm.

Well there were cameras...

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FS: What the two agents brought in.

ML: Yes.

FS: Yeah, what did they bring in with them, what, in the
general' s.

ML: . Cameras.

FS: They brought cameras...

ML: Mm-hmm.

FS: which were installed.

ML: Yeah.

FS: What else did they bring in?

ML: I don't know. They..

FS: 7 - Any listening devices, bugging devices?

ML: I would say so. I think...

FS: You don't know for sure, though?

ML: I'm not sure, my husband...

FS: No, but you do know about the cameras?

ML: . Yes. .

FS: - Alright, but there is a possibility they brought

bugging devices because it's logical they would
bring bugging devices.

. ML: I think sometimes, plenty of times they wanted to
plant a bug. .
FS: Sure.
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ML: No, in the, they'd hook it up to the master antenna.

for the cable TV.

FS: Oh, for the cable TV. Well, yeah, alright.

ML: That way they thought they could tune in to them
transmitting.

FS: Yeah. Alright, now, how long did they stay in, to
the General's apartment? .

ML: In the apartment, approximately 10-15-20 minutes.

FS: Then they left, your husband closed the door, did he
wipe his fingerprints off the door? Do you know?

ML: No, but my husband would usually put the edge of the-
rug back the way he found it.

FS: . Right, in other, everything. .

ML: | It was turned over.

FS: had to be placed back the same way it was.

ML: And he would watch them and they were rough.

FS: Well, we'll Forget about that part. We're not
interested in. -

ML: This worried my husband because this would...

FS: -Yeah, it would make..

ML: They knew...

FS: Make them know there was an entry.

ML: Right.

FS: Okay, now, they did that, they left. Did, did, did the

agents ever go back into that apartment again?

ML: No, one time.

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They were ‘satisfied so evidently everything worked out
alright. Even though.. :

Mm-hmm.

your husband was on edge about the way the agents
were.

Oh yeah.

Okay? Alright, so we'll forget that part. Now how
about other entries. We'll get one at a time.

The other entry that's outstanding is Soviet..
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year old daughter. I forget his name. I have them
all at home. And, I nicknamed him "The Tennis Player"
because he use to do a lot of jogging and play tennis
every morning to make contacts with Americans, and try
to recruit, I guess, gather information at the same
time...He spoke English without an...

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Fluently, without an accent, down to curses and slang

‘and everything else. His wife.

You got friendly with him also?

No, he even suggested to take my husband to a mas sage
parlor and he was way out, too much way out.

In other words, play with girls?
I had his, no, I was, well he was one of those.
He liked to play?

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He was a playboy.

He was a playboy. That's, they use

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his apartment, they did his apartment, too.

What did they do?

They broke in, they

‘Well, now wait a minute.

used my husband to break in. This a job I wasn't
on but.

Well, that not breaking in now. It's illegal entry..

‘ Entry.

Right. In'other words they used your husband and you |
also as a stakeout again?

Yeah.
On that. particular one.
Mm-hmm.

He opened the door again. What floor did he have his
apartment?

I don't recall that. I'd have to get the tenants' list.

Alright, it makes no difference. Alright, don't
worry about that. But they made entry into his

apartment. oo,

Yes.

What did they do in his apartment?

I guess they microfilmed and planted a device. Anyway,

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the tennis player, made a formal complaint to the -
23rd Precinct, PIU investigation unit, where I was
working.

When you say PIU, what's PIU?

Prisoner Investigation Unit.

Prisoner or Police?

Prisoner Investigation Unit.

Was that a police unit?

That's the 23rd precinct.

Police.

Right ,police...

Alright.

department. I was working up there.

Alright.

' Now I answered the phones.

Oh, hm-mmm
You understand?
Yeah.

And this tennis player called up and demanded a
detective. I was working up there and the detectives

were hot on a homicide and I answered the phone and

here it was the tennis player calling to make a formal
complaint of breaking and entering his apartment. I
had him on the phone.

And he didn't know it was you.
And I died, I tried to disguise my voice and he kept
on talking and talking and talking and I couldn't

disguise my voice. I was afraid he would know that [,
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And I wrote up the 61.

Go ahead. Now let me ask you this here.

The 61 - complaint report. .

Alright, let me ask you this here. You say you were
working for this police department in this precinct.

What was your job with them?

Auxiliary volunteer. Photos, translations, rape
cases, interrogation.

And at that time you were answering phone calls that
were coming in?

And typing, and: doing other things but I don't really
want to get those. guys involved because they...

No, I just wanted, wanted them to know what you were
doing in the police department.

I was an auxiliary sergeant.
Answering the phones. Okay.
Auxiliary. is a volunteer police.

Right, good enough. Now what other entries did you make
with them. That's two -- that you specified.

Two. The rest I didn't want to go along with because
I was a little afraid so my...

Things were getting a little hot for you.

Yes, because we had too many Russians, we had the
Albanians, we had the Red Chinese.

All living in that building?

All living in the same building. There was, it was
comical. The Albanians wouldn't talk to the Russians,

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‘ peddlers coming out of the laundry room. It was, it
_ Was a merry-go-round.

FS: : In other words,

ML: We had, in one day about four different agencies
watching people.

FS: In and out of the building.

“ML: And we didn't know if we were coming or going.
FS: Yeah. |
ML: We lived on the second floor. We had a view of the

street and we would signal to the, across the street
surveillance apartment, apartment, you know. We'd
see the cars pull up and the cars. leave.

FS: Alright, now...

ML: ' My husband did most of, he'd been doing it.

FS: He'd been doing most of the end of the...

ML: Yes, because I felt I didn't want to get caught. I

just didn't want to get caught because it was a heck
of a chance because more than one Soviet family lived
on one floor and if anyone of them walked out when my
husband was opening the door to let those guys in my
husband would have been dead.

FS: ‘Alright, not only that I understand that you were
getting very familiar with-many of the families of...

ML: “I was too friendly...

FS: these people.

ML: _ with the families. .

FS: ‘Right, so. you didn't want to go ahead and

ML: They trusted me alone in their apartments. We had many
discussions together, we exchanged medicine, I gave

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‘out of them as you can being on that friendly basis.

ML: I was being on a very social... .

FS: Right. |

ML: natural basis.

FS: . Right.

ML: And I became friendly with them.

FS: How long, how long...

ML: “We even were paid money to throw a few parties.

FS: . You were paid money...

ML: For the Soviets.

FS: You were given money by the...

ML: By the Justice Department.

FS: Yeah. |

ML: To throw a few parties.

‘FS: So the agents could make surveillance.

ML: So they, could make surveillance.

FS: And contact? |

ML: And contact, and try to get them, loosen up, to loosen
up... ,

FS: Well, booze cari loosen a lot of people's mouths.

ML: Well it was mostly their vodka anyway they: gave us.
But, yeah they suggested the, using agents as waiters
and bartenders and all that. And I said that wouldn't
go. Soviet people are very trained. They smell any-

: thing like that. And I was very open with them. They'd
“ leave from the countries and I would be the first to
“ know. They would bring back gifts. They babysat my
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medicine and I just didn't want anything to go wrong.

But your husband continued to work with the agency,
right?

Yes. We, we took, we ID'd photos. We watched for

‘cars. We watched their movement. It was day and night.

You did a lot of surveillance. work on these people
but you yourself, personally, wanted to try to keep
out of the...

Yeah.

operation as far as...

Break...

entering into the apartments, right?

Yes. .

How long did this last?. Over a period of how long?
1969 to 1976. .

All these years?

Yes.

That's doing surveillance on these people.

Yeah. We were...

How about the Albanians now, tell me about the code.

The Albanians, the Albanians we got very friendly with
a Mr. Koyani, Ambassador to the Mission, the U.N., and
the Albanians are not as elite as the Russians are.
The Russians dry clean their own clothes, burn their
own garbage, have no photos, personal things in the
apartment. The Albanians are more, they allow their
children to watch television. The Soviets don't. We
convinced the Albanians who had a mission on their
mission, which they blocked a complete fire exit was
on the 2lst floor of the Newberry. They lived in the
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they had about 30, 30 families who resided there and
their mission was there. And we became very friendly
with them because of one incident, especially my

husband, took, went to see his mother and left me in

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called demonstration where the demonstrators had a
25-minute picketing right to picket. The demonstra-
tion turned into a bloody riot where they burned flags
and everything and the Albanians came down. They all
are armed. They're all armed, and they agitated the
rioters out on the street. And I was alone with only
my basic police training and my wits, really, and a
panicking doorman and my kids. I was just alone. I,
the first thing I looked out the window when I heard
the shooting I called the Bureau and I said, "Get me
Al Chestone fast.'"' I said I don't have Louis here.
I said I need help. I have a demonstration. I don't
know what to do. And there were about 500 people
throwing bricks, bottles, everything through the plate
glass windows. Burning American flags and Albanian
flags because of something that happened in Albania.
Those that defected here started this demonstration.
So then I, things got out of hand, the doorman was
hurt with a brick. I saw blood, and the Albanian
Ambassador and five top officials agitated these
people from inside the lobby with fists. Very
unprofessional-like.

Yeah.

So I physically pulled them by their coats and told
them, "Get upstairs, get upstairs and get yourself
back into the mission", because tenants were walking
through the lobby and we were going to get hurt by
flying glass and everything else. And I had no help.
The police were outside of the line... ,

Marita, what we're going into details is something

that is a story.

Oh, alright.
So we'll go ahead and just bypass that.

Anyway, the Albanians Al was interested into, and
especially because they were admitting the Red Chinese
into the United Nations, which they did. It was that
speech, which I have the original copy of. Ambassador

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Nocco, and they were, they were sloppier, and the
agent Al Chestone told me convince them, you know, .
case ‘em, keep going. up and down the steps, what
time they throw their garbage out. Garbage was

the most valuable source of information for the

Bureau, and that was...

Garbage and trash.

Trash. Chicken bones, codes, diapers, whatever, you
know, and that was my job because I had the patience.
Now the FBI supplied me with bandaids and gloves,
flashlights, batteries and the whole thing, because

I convinced the Albanians that the compacter, which
was the disposal system in the building from 31 floors
down -- in other words when they threw their garbage
out that it would come out in brick form, block forn,
brick crushed, which in fact was not true.

-But they believed it?

They believed it. They trusted us. Louis and I were
the only ones allowed in the mission. We were. the
only ones.

Now this mission is that building you were talking
about. :

That's still. there.

Still there.

Very much there. That's the code that you have.
Right. | .

So, I started, made it a every two hour routine to go
after midnight when they put their garbage out in the
hall, pick up the bags. Take them down to the service
entrance and take the bags at home, take ‘em home.

And go through the orange peels and chicken bones and
gather torn up letters, this was before they got smart
and bought a shredder (unintelligible). And I would
turn this garbage letter, in other words, I would
past it together and give it to the Bureau and some

of these letters turned out to be very valuable. Among
them was one code, now...

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I would assume that these letters that were in code.
they would be classified material. Otherwise it
wouldn't be in code. , ,

Very valuable, yes. The...
And this was turned over to who?

To Al Chestone. The first code I got, I just got on
a hunch lucky. Because it was just at the time when
the Red Chinese entered the United States, first

came here. Mr. Huang Yua, and I met them. We met
them first before anybody met them, Louis and IL.

And that same night the code came down at 3:00 in the
morning and I just had a hunch and I got up and I
said, "Louis I can't sleep, I'm going down and do

some work. Give me the keys to the compacter room."

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around 3:30 these bags started to come down from the
2lst floor.

3:30 in the morning?
3:30 in the morning because Al said watch them

closely, because of the Red Chinese. And I shut
the machine off and I got these, I got this code,

I caught it in other words, but it....

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This is the code you turned over to me?

This is the first code, the very first code, at the
risk of having my hands chopped off because if I

‘didn't shut that machine off in time I could have

been hurt. But I got it. The first code was very
valuable. It was sent to Washington.

(End of tape - side 2).

...these bags of stuff and if you hadn't have turned
off the machine you would have got your hand either
chopped up or cut off, and so forth. What did, were
you saying about Al, Uncle Al? . ae

Uncle Al slept and I did the work, and by the time I
got upstairs and took the orange peels and everything
out of the garbage and separated the letters and

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put it all in a box, right down to every piece. I
ruined my rugs and everything. And Uncle Al would
come at 8:30, 9:00 in the morning and I would still
be up separating the garbage and he'd be all fresh
and ready for work and I had just come back from the
garbage room. And...

You stayed awake all night?

Yeah, with the tweezers and I use to run out of .
skotch tape which was frustrating cause I couldn't
stick these letters togethers without skotch tape,

so he brought me a big box of skotch tape which»

was very kind of him. Then I would give it to him
and he'd, he'd have coffee, tea and toast or whatever.
And I'd say, "Now I want to go to sleep." And he'd
say, "No, no, no, wait a minute. Mr. So-and-so,

or Berzofsky, we want to get a line on Mr. Berzofsky.

Who was Mr. Berzofsky?

Berzofsky, the Second Secretary to the Union of the
Soviet Socialist Republic.

What was his first name, do you know?
Mumm, I forgot...

That's alright, it don't matter.

' I forgot really. But we were very close to him. His

wife was a surgeon in the Soviet mission and she was,
she's, she's adorable. She's nice, she's sweet and
she has a lovely daughter, Irene, who turned out to
have liver cancer. She was a little girl when I first
met her, like my daughter. My daugher played with her,
they took piano lessons together, exchanged books, and
the little girl, at sixteen, Irene was sent back to
the Soviet Union with liver cancer. I got very close
to the mother, the mother was heartbroken, the father
was heartbroken. I guess like any mother and father
when their only child turns out to have liver cancer.
She's diagnosed as such in the Soviet Union and they
asked me to get medicine, pain killers for Irene. I
do so and pass along to them empirin and codine #4,
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their daughter on with the permission of
the FBI. We exchanged jewelry, clothes, and everything
else. We were just one mother to another mother.

Their little girl in trouble, mine not in trouble and
it was little things like that that I would get very
involved with. I don't know.. ;

Morita let me ask you this here, did the agents ever
tell you to go out with any of the diplomats in the
mission?

Well, now we have to go back to Oleg, Oleg Likichev.
And who is he again?

He was the KGB spy that they lost and thought he, they
thought he was still residing in Washington, the out-
side of Washington, D. C., in Virginia. He was
supposed to have last been seen in Virginia somewhere
and all of a sudden they picked him up in our building,
as being in our building. They lost him and they were
furious, the Bureau, and they wanted us very close to
him. And he, we had a lot of evenings together we
spent with him, dinners, and he came to us,

In other words he asked you to go out, did he ask
(unintelligible)

Well, Oleg, Oleg, let's just say, I don't know if it

was a game they were playing or if they were doubles
or what. They talked a lot about the State of
Washington, residing in the State of Washington.
They also knew I had diamonds and he asked me,
(unintelligible) "Can you get me diamonds?"

What did he call you?
Llonka Marischa, Ilona Marita.
Oh, that's in Russian?

Yes. And we always exchanged Russian words and I
know a few, enough to get by on. AL11 of a sudden,

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diamonds, and Al, what do I do. Go ahead, talk to
him about diamonds. So I said Oleg; what do you
mean by diamonds? He said uneut stones for cash.

I am a Soviet official, I cannot go into a jewelry
store like you and buy them. I want diamonds. I'm
willing to pay a hundred thousand dollars for them.

I said, I said tell me why, Oleg. And he said,
“Money, why does anybody want diamonds." I said it's
a good enough reason. So I said, "Hey, Louis, what
can we do for Oleg about his diamonds?" And Louis
said we'll figure something out. And then Oleg said,
this was at a dinner party up in their house. Hot
diamonds, he wanted hot, uncut, raw diamonds. So

he was serious, he was dead serious. He said he
would buy them for cash. :

FS: How serious was he? Did you ever get any for him?

ML: Well it got this far. We told Uncle Al the next
‘ morning. I said, "Uncle Al, I got a surprise for

you. You're gonna have to come up with some hot
diamonds. A hundred thousand dollars worth because
I promised Oleg that I would get them for him since
he can't buy them. Oleg wants diamonds."’ And I
said if you can put two and two together maybe this
guy will defect because he's talking about the State _
of Washington. I said but you have to be careful,
I have to be careful, no? So Al said I'll get you
the diamonds. You tell him to get the cash ready.
So Uncle Al went to an underworld source and got
the diamonds. Uncle Al made a boo-boo and Oleg, the
day of the exchange I was supposed to make the sale
in tthe apartment, Oleg was at a sports meeting in
Washington,D.Cc. Uncle Al.said, "I've got to give
these diamonds back to the underworld or give them
the cash." I. said, "Listen, I told you tomorrow,
not today, Al. Tomorrow, because Oleg told us he's
going to this soccer meeting in Washington, D.C.
Alright whatever the kind of meeting it is. He is
in Washington, D. CC." "Oh is he?" I said, "Yes,
he is." Right. Anyway, Uncle Al started to panick
because he was in my house with a hundred thousand
dollars worth of uncut, hot diamonds.

FS: By himself?

ML: By himself, and I was supposed to get the cash from
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a Wednesday and the whole thing...
FS: ; So what happened? .

ML: fell through. Al said he had to give them back to.
the underworlds, to his source. So he took them
back and then Oleg, you know, I had to talk ny
way out of it. It was just one of the flubs. But
anyway after I left my husband Oleg kept asking for
me, kept coming directly to the apartment and say-
ing, “Louis, I don't believe you two split, you two
go, she left. I don't believe it." And my husband
said "yes, she did leave. It's her own problems,
Oleg, you know, forget about it." And he said,
"No, it's not possible. You must stay together.
You must stay together.''. Anyway, he kept coming,
about four times and asking my husband, until my
husband made a joke of it and said Oleg wants to
see you. I mean he's made it dam plain that he
wants to see you. In other words if you're
finished I'll take over. Where is she living? My
husband tells him I'm living on 88th Street. Now
I talked to my husband and I said what did you do
that for? Tell him I'm living on 88th Street?

You know, because I know he wants to go out with
me, You can feel it, I can feel it, the, you know?
So I call up,Uncle Al meantime is transferred to
Newark, I get another case agent. Louis gets a
case agent for the building and he works alone,
without me. The other agent is John Kotter.

FS: With the FBI?

ML: - FBI, 69th Street. I call up John Kotter. I said,

' "John, I hear your taking Al's place", arid I meet
him. Drop things, start things, drop things,
different assignments, then we get to Oleg. I said
look, Oleg is bothering Louis. He wants to go out
with me. And John Kotter says, “Beautiful, that is
a beautiful setup. Let's call him up." I said,
“Hey, wait a minute. Either do this sophisticated,
alright? First I'll send him a Christmas card and
sign it Ilonka Marischa, you know? I'I1 put my.
phone number on the bottom, something you know?

Or I'll happen to be there when he's going into the
_ building, or I'll bump into him." I said you don't
“ just call him up. You know that's going to be like
a setup because I've been avoiding him. So, anyway,
he tells, he outlines the whole thing.. I said what

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realize what a bomb this is? This top KGB spy wants
you?” | And I said, "Well", I say "he's not really ny

type."', I said but again, the best interests of the
country, but how far do you want me to go? And he
said ' ‘all the way" I said what is all the way? He
said, "You start with a Christmas card." Well the

Christmas card was answered by Oleg going to Louis
and saying, "I got Ilonka'’s Christmas card. Where is
she living, Louis?" You know, so John talked me into
calling the mission. I call up the mission, across
from 19th precinct, and I said, "Oleg, this is Ilonka
Marischa. Hello darling", you know, and this, this
and this. And I said oh boy everything is wired and
everything from the mission anyway. But he's top dog
there. He is top dog in the mission. He has the.
say. He's a very important person in the Soviet
mission. Anyway, John okays a telephone coil pickup
that I have on my phone to a Soni tape recorder. We
make a tape of this because John Kotter is sitting on
pins and needles waiting for me to replay that tape
on what Oleg tells me, you know? Oleg doubletalks
but we get a message that we want to meet, you know?
So they had some kind of a security council and we

. made a date and it was postponed. Oleg called up
and apologized which I also have on tape. And each

time the Bureau was very happy. We're gonna start a’
blossoming relationship here, you know, and end up
with photographs and better something, which I don't
think I would have gone all the way. But that's what

their idea was so they can exchange at a later date.

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Blackmail?

into
Blackmail him / giving them information (unintelligible).

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And I'm in the middle. So, anyway, I go, I go to the
mission with my daughter, who was at the time 12 years
old. My daughter, I guess, is a little use to my
life. She's use to FBI all her life. She knows not
to talk. She knows whether we look at her when to
say something. I guess she's the closest thing: to me
now. She goes along. She's very cool and we both
walked into the mission on the pretense that she had
to do a project for school on the Soviet Union. She
needed material. Now as soon as we walked into the

. mission everybody there I know because they reside in ©

the building. And they all say, "Ilonka Marischa
blah, blah, blah, blah." And I'm very friendly with
them all. They all love my daughter. But we're .
there for other reasons. We're there to go to see
Oleg. We gather, we gather the material, meanwhile
I'm aware that every picture has an eye or every
poster has a mirror or camera, you know? But my
daugher's very cool and we're left alone in the room
where the Soviet material is displayed. But I know
we're being watched. She knows it too and she
doesn't, she says, "Mommy, look, this is beautiful,
beautiful." You know? Then I ask for Oleg to this
very, very tough Soviet woman that said "What you

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I'd like to speak to him.” And she called and he
is still in the United Nations, he asks you to wait.
I refused a wire or anything like that, but...

What wire are you talking about?

A wire on me.

Oh.

Because...

That the agents (unintelligible)

Yes, because Oleg I know likes me and if he sees me
he would grab me and hug me and that's the Russian
way...

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And he'll feel that and I'm dead.

Right.

Right in the mission. That's not my. proper there.

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And I wouldn't risk it with my daughter. So, anyway,
we waited. We were allowed the run-of the place. We
knew everyone there and...

Like you say, eyes were watching you.

Oh definitely, definitely, because that's how they
test you when you walk in there. And you just don't
get in there and have the run of the place, you're
not left alone. But I know you're being watched.

Sure.

Anyway, there was this, it was, it was a legitimate
excuse that Oleg was tied up in the United Nations
because it was in the paper the next day, that it
was some security council meeting. And I said
"Please give this note to Mr. Likichev. Tell him
thank you very much for the material. And best
wishes to his wife, blah, blah, blah," and we left.
Funny thing is the cop outside almost arrested us,
a uniformed police officer. ,

For what reason?

He gave us a dirty look and made a very slurring,
nasty remark when I left. But I hate to knock the
police department because they're helping me now. .
But, I guess, he didn't know, you know?

Yeah, he thought you were Russians. |

He thought I was a Russian.

Or a Russian sympathizer.

Right, especially going in with a child and I looked™
very... ;

Yeah.

American. Anyway, I got home and John Kotter was
waiting in front of my door. I remember it was
raining. He was reading. And I said, he said "Are
you going to meet Oleg?" I said, "Now how the hell
can I make a date with Oleg with my daughter?”

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ML: I said Oleg's in the United Nations. Why don't you
tell me these things before that they're delayed at
a security council meeting, you know, instead of me
letting, letting me sit there. You know these are
all the little things that use to annoy me...

FS: Yeah.

ML: that they have to screen things first before, you
know - check things out, don't have to make a blunder
like that. Anyway, I said I left Oleg a note. I
said now you go home and I'm going to take it easy
and they, we tried, and I said, "You know, John,
you're just going to get me so involved with Oleg.
I'm not going to end up in bed in a motel room
upstate somewhere with Oleg so you can come in and
take photographs. That's not my stick." I said
I'll gather garbage, get license plates, tape, do
everything else, but, I'll even take the mail, like
I've been doing, but I'm not going to be caught in
bed. I said that's too big a pawn for me and I'm
not getting anything for it right now. They allowed
me to take mail, steam it, photograph it and put it
back. Some of that mail is now missing, which
belongs to the Soviet people, which this perpetrator,
perpetrator has and wants to blackmail me with and I
asked the FBI to please help me with that.

‘FS: Who's the perpetrator?

ML: The perpetrator is Guiseppi Faisiano, aka Pionne,

- aka David Ring, who broke into my apartment and stole’
this tape with Oleg Likichev, these love conversations,
the mail, and part of the Albanian code. He has those
in his possession. He threatens my life with it. He
threatens blackmail with me. He assaulted me. He
pistol-whipped me and I asked the Bureau for help.

FS: Did he try to throw you out the 18 story build-, window? _
Mi: Yes.
FS: He did what?
Mb: "Yes, he tried to push me out the window.
. FS: 18 stories?
ML: | Yes, and I told him stay away, get back, because if

anything happens to me there's letters with the
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and he stopped cold. He threatened to shoot my

-daughter in the back. He's threatening her right

now with disgrace because she is the daughter of
the, of a well-known man. Right now my main concern
is the, these letters and the code and the tape and
possibly other things, are in the hands of this
Guiseppi Faisiano, and he wants money from me and
he's probably right now at the building. He is
casing the Soviets and he's going to try to go to
the same people that he has on the letters to tell
them that I was an informant for the FBI for revenge,,.
for having him arrested on the assault charge with a
gun. He also wants money. He wants to disgrace the
FBI. He's blackmailing right now my husband, my ex-

“husband, for the master keys of the Newberry. My

husband is calling me for help and I don't know what
to do. I asked Frank to help me. I gave him the
code because everybody refused. I was afraid to have
any-, anywhere. I guess Frank helped me before in
Cuba and I don't, I worked, he worked for me and I
worked for him and I don't know where to go because,
the only ones that are helping me now are the local
police - in their lunch hours or when I'm too afraid
to leave the house they buy me milk and fruit for the
kids. And they'1l take the children home when I get
a threat on the phone or a box in the mailbox or get
my back door shot at. I take my children and I put
them in the 23rd precinct.

They even, off duty...

The off-duty police, police officers take my children

home.... :

- And they spend time at the house?

And they spend time at the house in their free time
when they should be home with their families.

Well you have saved the life of two people, right?
I would think so.
Well, you have.

Yes.

‘When, one of the, who are the two people you saved

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A federal narcotics informant...
Undercover agent, right?

Undercover agent Pino Cantanya, and Assistant Federal
District Attorney Thomas A. Puecio from Brooklyn.

And you saved their lives because a contract was
being put out on them?

Yes because I overheard and everything I said checked
out. .

And even though you have saved their lives...

I asked them please help me with this man, he has
Soviet documents, he's hurt me, he's hurt my

children, he almost shot my daughter. He, I asked
them please help me because I gave you information

for nothing and they said they promised to do something
on this individual immigration-wise. So far he has
threatened everybody around me. My physicians, my
mother, my ex+husband, my children, my neighbors, my
super.

He's an illegal immigrant?

He is. I would say he's an illegal alien.

What's his full name, his:real name?

-His arrest name, that he was arrested under was

Guiseppi Faisaino. He has, he's also known as David
Ring. He has a passport under this name. He's also
known as Pinno, and he is a gunman. Never worked a
day in his life, never paid taxes, he's a gambler,
he's a stick-up man and I worked for the FBI on
organized crime at the racetrack. Roosevelt. Raceway,
Yonkers, and...

Any other agencies?

Organized. Crime Commission Bureau, OCCB.

" Ever worked with DEA? Drug Enforcement Agéncy?

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Who are the people you are in touch with?
Two agents, Murphy and Shannon. This was...
You know their full names?

Well I have a day number and a night number and

I did some work in the Newberry with my husband
with them involving the Cuban narcotics connection
in South America. I also worked with the organized
crime, gambling.

Now you've turned, you want me to turn this tape
over to Senator Baker's committee to be turned over
to the Justice Department, is that correct? Right?

Yes.
You want me turn the.

Yes, I would like you, Frank, to turn this over just
in case something happens to me because I don't know
which way it’s going to come.

And you need some protection, right now, sight?

I need some type of help for my children, because of
this man Pinno threatening to expose my dealings with
the FBI and to the foreign press. — I just caught up
in this thing since 1959 and [I've been with it up
until last month, last week and I've just, and I need
help. There is no help. I mean since last month and
I don't want my children hurt. They've already been
hurt.

Alright, I promise to turn this tape and the code, over
to Senator Baker’ s committee, right?

Yes.

Who in turn will turn the information over to the-
proper officials in Washington, D. C.

Yes. I don't mean to embarass the Bureau. I know how
important it is but at this point I need help
desparately for my kids. They're 6 and 14 and they
don't deserve what they have to go through. The

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Yes.
the kids?

They threatened to kidnap my children. They were
once abducted by this man. I had no knowledge of
it. On the last day of school and he, he will

hurt them. He will hurt them - this man is sick.
He's, he's on 10 valiums a day. He's unpredictable.
He's vengeful.

And his close association with top mobsters?

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INTERVIEW OF MARITA LORENZE
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‘Transcript of tapes provided the Select Committee on Intelligence
by Frank Sturgis on September 3, 1976

Marita Lorenze (ML) -- Interviewed by Frank Sturgis ‘on 9/2/76

Frank Sturgis (FS)

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You an American citizen?
Yes.

Were you born here?

Born in Braemen, Germany on August 18, 1939 and my
mother registered me at birthwith the Consulate

_ because she was. stuck in the war over there, but I
'.am an American citizen, not naturalized or anything.

I was registered as an American citizen.
How old were you when you came.to the United States?

I-was about 12, came over on the U.S.S. Henry Gibbons,
American troop transport, because my mother worked for
the United States Army.

Okay, now we're going to go ahead and jump. You went
to Cuba what month and what year and on what ship?

I met, I went, I took several trips with my father
who was Commander of the oceanliner Berlin. I met
Fidel...

What was your father's full name?
Commander Heinrich Frederick Lorenz.
And how old was he?

Approximately 50-something, 55, when I first, I went
on several trips to Cuba before I met Fidel with,
but I was a little girl.

When's the first time you went to Cuba after Fidel
took over the government on January 1, 1959?

I met Fidel February 28, 1959, on one of my father's
cruises where Fidel came aboard with several of his
men. He said he saw the oceanliner from the Havana
Hilton balcony and he took a launch with his Chief ©
of the Navy, what's his name, I forgot, Castagna...

Forget it, forget about it, we can go ahead. Who
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and Fidel and several of his armed guards.
Okay now, what happened

Castanyava...

Castanyava |

Castanyava was the chief of the Navy.

And Fidel offered you a job or something, can you
go into that?

Well he was very fond of everything German. He
said he read and my father, you know, tried.
to pacify the tourists, the passengers on the ship
because they were terrified. They thought they were
being invaded. So I helped my father pacify the
tourists and it was really a funny scene. Then I
steered Fidel to my father's cabin and we went to
dinner and Fidel started to play kneesies under the

table. And this was February 28, 1959 on the cruise.

And he offered you a job, right?

Yes, after about 5 hours. on board ship we went back
up to my father's cabin and had drinks and exchanged
gifts; and my father and Fidel seemed to get along
very well. My father is diplomatic and they

exchanged plaques and my father's silver ashtray and
‘stuff like that. And he asked me, he asked my father

if since I was bilingual if I could go, come back,
return to Cuba to be his secretary since he was
getting German mail and he did not. speak German and
he assured me that I would be safe and set up in an
office, and blah, blah, blah, blah. . And I had

‘friends in Cuba anyway.

How old were you then?

Nineteen, nineteen years old.

Did you get off the ship and stay there?

No, I went back to New York. Fidel, on the bridge,
asked me for my phone number and address in New York

and said he would call me, and I just, I didn’ t
believe it.

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FS: When did he call you?

ML: The same day I arrived in New York. Because my
: father took off that night for Germany again and
the phone ring, and it rang at 1 o'clock in the
morning. I guess the previous.

FS: Well-he went back to Germany with the ship, right?
‘Where did you ‘go?

ML: I was living with my brother in New York City
My brother was a translator. for the United Nations
and I was alone living in New York City going to
the Merchantson Banker School.

FS: Well how did you get back to New York City from
Havana?

ML: On my father's ship. It was the last stop on the
cruise of about 5 or 6 stops.

FS: Oh, in other words the, in other words the ship left
that night, left Havana that night...

ML: Yeah.

FS: went over to New York and then from New York went

back to Europe, right?

ML: Yes. Yes. I thought about Fidel and he pointed out
this is my Havana and I guess I was impressed. I
. was young, I don't know. And I thought that...

FS: He called, he called you, he knew just about what
time you were going to arrive in New York and when
you got there he called you, what, the same, the same
day you got there?

ML: The same day our ship arrived, three days later. And I
just picked up the phone and the Havana operator said
one moment please, the Prime Minister is on the phone,
on the line, and I heard some shouting and then I
heard “hello.

FS: ' Did he speak Cuban or English to you?

ML: He spoke. broken English in his hoarse voice. I guess
che was giving a lot of speeches at that time. And he
asked me, "Hello Marita, you think I don't call? I
think about you very much and I call. I keep my word.
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FS:. How long was it did you leave New York to go to
Havana?

ML: Fidel said to me, I said is this really you Fidel,

and he said yes. I am in Havana Hilton, you call
me back in room 2408, and I said no, alright I
believe you I said because how else would you have
my number. He said "I want you come back. I think
“about you and I will send a plane, my plane, and you
come back." And it was a joke really, I liked the
Cocoa Glace, it's an ice cream in a cocoanut shell,
and he had sent to my father's ship a case of it so
I would have enough for the return trip home because,
I don't know, I just talked about Havana, the island
in general. So I, and I still didn't believe him
‘that he would send the plane.

FS: Did he send the airplane?

ML: Yes.

FS: : What kind of an airplane did he send?

ML: A Cubana airliner with...

FS: Four engines? |

ML: Yes, with two men and two men came to the, my door.

I was living at 344 West 87th Street at the time, on
the second floor, and my brother was at a UN party
and I -was home alone studying. Oh no, in fact I was-
reading a Herbert L. Mathews article on Fidel Castro

_ and Cuba when the doorbell rang, and it was Jesus

and Pedro |

and they showed me identification: One came in military
uniform, the other in civilian clothes. One smiled,
one.didn't. One said, “Are you ready?" And one said,
"We go now. Fidel want very. much to see you."

FS: _ (Laughter).

ML: And I said I didn't finish my homework yet. I was like
in shock. I-didn't know what to do. So they said they
were staying in a hotel, that they would, the plane
would leave tomorrow, please be ready. I, meanwhile I
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(contd.)* I hadn't even unpacked because I was worred about
missing two days at school.

FS: _ Yeah.
ML: So I went...
FS: | Well these are incidentals anyway, so, what'd you

do, you went to the airport? What airport did the
airplane, was the airplane at?

ML: - Uh, LaGuard, which is not Kennedy, it was at that
time named something else. Idlewild, right?
FS: . Idlewild, yeah.
ML: Vand...
FS: It was Idlewild airport, that's where they had the
airplane, Cubana Airlines?
ML: ' Yeah, Cubana Airlines. Got on the plane...
FS: How many people where on the airplane? .
ML: Me, a steward, a,pilot and a co-pilot and the two
guards.
FS: Ha, ha, had -- that's funny. Go ahead.
ML: So anyway, 1 I met Fidel and that's when I got involved.
FS: This is more or less a background so. they know her
background.
ML: Yeah that's, that's out anyway.
(Unidentified voice: ‘Yeah, right.")
FS: I mean don't drag it out so much because the details
of all. this thing is...
ML: Yeah.

FS: - Is yours, you know. Go over it lightly. So you went
back to Havana, right?

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Cause we'll go over this lightly.

ML: I was in the...

FS: ’ At the Hilton?

ML: ; I was driven by black limousine right to the Hilton.

FS: And that's where Fidel was staying at the Hilton, right?

ML: ' Yes, he was having an argument in his suite with Chez

Raoul and some Americans.

FS: He was having some argument with some Americans. Do
you know who the Americans were?

ML: Yes.

FS: . Who were they?

ML: One lady attorney trying to promote something, Muriel...

FS: Oh this was more business or something like that?

ML = Yes business. Everybody was trying to promote this
and that with Fidel.

FS: Yes, well that's immaterial.

ML: . So then I was told to go in the room and wait and the

door locked. And I was in there, in his suite, and
Fidel came in and I missed him and he missed me and
the rest is going to be in the book if I ever write it.

FS: You'll write it don't worry. Alright now...

ML: | If I live.

FS: Do you know approximately when you met me?

ML: A couple months, or two months, or three months after
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FS: No,That was very, I think you met me around what, April?

ML April, right.

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And I believe we met at the Riviera Hotel in the
lobby?

Yes.

That's where, when I saw...

That's what I'said, a couple months...

Right.

right after that.

In April, right. And this is where we made contact
and. so forth and then we saw each other a few times |
after that.

In the coffee shop.

In the coffee shop and this is when you were recruited
to go ahead and spy for the United States and so forth
and, were you ever introduced or, to Colonel Nickels?
Yes. .

Do you know who Colonel Nickels is, right. He was

the Colonel who was military attache with the American
Embassy. in Havana, Cuba at that time, right?

‘Yes.

Okay. Then you started your spy thing and $0 forth
and so forth, alright? .

Um Hum.

We'll go ahead and jump a Little bit and so forth.
There were several meetings that Fidel had in the
Hilton with some of the people of the staff. I was
present at the meeting, right?

Right.

‘And, one of the time that Fidel | was talking to the

staff concerned the gambling casinos and American
business interests in Cuba, right?

Right.

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ML: Out of Cuba.

FS: Cuba. All the American businesses were going to go

ahead and be nationalized because it was Cuba and the
Cuba for the Cubans.

ML: Right.

FS: And so forth. And then it was suggested about well
you know the American government may not like it.
You're gonna have all the American business interests
put pressure on the State Department which would put
pressure on him and that they would be up in arms and
they would have the agents, they would send new agents
into Cuba because the CIA at that time was very close,
closely contacted, at least certain people in the CIA
had contact with the 26th of July movement. As a
matter of fact that they were exchanging information .
with Castro...

ML: Uh hum.

-FS: which enabled him to outwit many. of the other groups
so really CIA helped Fidel quite a bit in this power
struggle that was going on in Cuba at that time. So
Fidel, with the help of CIA...

ML: . Yes.
FS: got to be the ruler of Cuba. Now...
ML: I would, what about, where did Fidel get most of his
guns from?
FS: - Well, you know...
ML: To lead the revolution?
| FS: Right, you know, so forth. | That's a story which we

won't have to go into and so forth because we just
(unintelligible) briefly over it. And then there
came a period of time. where Fidel in all his
popularity and so forth was, now Fidel with you - he
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He told you he loved you and so forth.

-Yes.

And he seduced you, right? And, which has been on
record. :

Mm-Hmm.

You know, and you liked him and you actually in
liking him like a young girl thought for the future
that here's a man that I, you admired, that you
started to get an affection for him and so forth,
and really you thought of marriage, right?

Mm-hmm.

And in the process of being close with him, being as
the man's intelligent, dynamic and so forth, he did
force his attentions on you and naturally he seduced
you. You didn't want to but it happened.

Yes.

And you had nobody to go to because, hey, you're in™
his Cuba, right?

I was in his Cuba alright.

Right, now also what we were getting in this Senate
Intelligence Committee has got is the things that
Fidel has stated against the United States government
if they tried to interfere with the revolution and so
forth when the new election time comes because at that
time the President of the United States was Eisenhower

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which was discussed among the top military people, if
the new government came in and if they decided that they
didn't like Fidel's policy, which Fidel was saying what
he was going to do for Cuba on an international scale,
that if the United States government decided to go and
turn against him and put pressure on him he would do
likewise to the United States government. ‘And he was
going to export his revolution in Latin America. These
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A number of times I was present up there for the..
Mm-hmm.

in the Hilton with. all the people. Now you left Cuba
when? . oo

Sometime in September.

In September of 1959 you came to the United States,
right?

Yeah.

And when: you came back to the United States you saw
me.

Yes.

And then arrangements were made for you to go back to
Cuba and so forth..

Yes, yes. .
And this is what happened with the attempt and so forth.
Right.
Now when you went back to Cuba, when did you leave
there the second time?

towards
When exactly / the end of 1959, 1960.

1959?

60 - I'm not sure. I'm no good at dates and all that.

I just know I went in and I took that stuff and I went
out. .

Well then was it the early part of ‘60?
Yeah.

It had to be the early part of '60 and you ‘came back
to Miami, right?

Right.

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and do some- work

With Alex.

With Alex and myself here in South Florida. And then
when did you cease doing some work at that time?

Uh, in 19--, end of 1960.

End of 1960. When did I tell you to make contact with
Petty Humanez at his home. Do you know approximately

what time that was?

In 1960, 61.

The end of 1960, or the early part of '61, was that
then?

About the time of the Bay of Pigs.

Well, '61 was the Bay of Pigs, in April. '61. Soit
had to be before the Bay of Pigs.

Before, before, yes it was.

Yeah this is when Petty Humanez was exiled in Miami..

Right.

Beach on'the island there, right?
Yes. .

Alright, and you were told by whom to go over to his

“ home?:

You.

You were told by me and you went there by yourself or
with someone else?

Should I name him?

Yeah. Alex?

Alex York.

Alright, Alex went with you over to Petty Humanez'
house, right. They had a gathering there with some

Cubans, and so forth and so forth. Do you know who
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“ML: Big Cubans.

FS: ' Well when you talk about big Cubans can you name some?

ML: Top Cubans in exile, Prios, Carlos Prios

FS: President, ex-President Carlos Prios.

ML: I don't know, there were so many, God.

FS: Alright, well that's, that's good enough. Anyway.
Alright, that's when you first met Petty Humanez,
alright.

ML: Yes.

FS: | What was the idea of me sending you over there to meet
Petty Humanez?

ML: . Information gathering, to find out how he was
sponsoring the Cuban exiles.

FS: Wasn't he suspected of supplying money and other

goodies...

ML: Oh, yes.

FS: to groups, where at?

ML: In Miami and outside of Miami.

FS: And down in Texas, right?

ML: Yeah.

FS: Training camps in Texas?

ML: Yes. .

FS: Alright, he was feeding money to them also in... °-

ML: Yeah.

FS: Texas, right? And this is to help overthrow Castro
government, right?

ML: I would presume, yeah. I guess so.

FS: - Now did you find out whether or not he was giving them

this financial assistance?

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Now you got very friendly with Petty Humanez, isn't

.that correct?

I would say so.
You would say so. As a matter of fact...

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- As a matter of fact a love affair developed..

Yes. . _

and so forth and so forth, alright.
Yeah.

We won't go into anything else. We'll go ahead and
jump past that. Then we lost contact with you, right?

Yes.

And in losing contact with you we, well we mentioned
sometime when they, the United States State Department
sent Petty Humanez back to Venezuela, he went to
prison, and you mentioned something about the family
wanted to break him out and you wanted to see if I
could do it and so forth: Alright, so we'll skip that.
Anyway, I lost contact with you. When was the last
time we lost contact, when was that?

"64.

1964 or '63? '63 or '64 approximately, alright?

After "64. .

It was around, approximately 1964.

(unintelligible)

And you what, came to New York?

When the General went to jail.

Yeah, you went to South America and then you came back

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ML: Yeah.

FS: Then you remarried, rather you got married here in
New York?

ML: Oh some time passed, I waited for the General but
then I got married, right.

FS: Who did you marry? You're gonna say, you're gonna go
ahead and say he worked at the building with you, and...

ML: Yeah, I guess I have to. Louis John Yurositz.

FS: Alright, now one time you and him did what. at what

building and the address?

ML: We were both federal informants for the FBI in New York.

FS: You worked as an, both of you worked as undercover .
agents for the FBI in New Yor, right?

ML: Me as a double because I had..

FS: You as a double agent. Now when did this start?

ML: He was the building manager at 250 East 87th Street

in Manhattan. The building is owned by Glenwood
Management, called the Newberry. The work started
with the case agent in 1969.

FS: 1969. Who was the case agent's name, and what federal
agents, you already told me. You b already told me and
they got it on record and this.

ML: They told me not to say anything.

FS: Well, honey, they got it on record and you're gonna
go ahead and send this down there because Senator
Baker knows who your case agent is, knows the CIA
agent that you were in touch with. —

ML: ‘You k know I keep: remembering don't embarass the Bureau
and.
FS: Honey , you're not embarassing, the. Bureau. What you "re

doing is giving this information to Senator Baker's

- Committee to turn over to the Justice Department in
‘order for them to go ahead and say, hey - you worked
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protection for you and your kid, and if you don't go
ahead and tell them the name of these here people how
you gonna do it?

ML: Mmm.

FS: You know we get back to the same thing again. Yeah,
you're looking for protection. So far the people
you've worked with, so. far this man Pucci who you
saved his life, and saved another undercover agent's
life whose working with the FBI. These people are
powerful people yet they have done nothing with the
problem that you have had right now with you, three
times there's been an attempt on your life, isn't
that correct? One time they almost threw you out of
an 18 story building. Another time you got pistol-.
whipped. You did all this crap for these people
here yet they will do nothing to go ahead at the
present time, and this is on record in their own
files and so forth, yet you cannot move them to give
you or your children any. protection. This piece of
tape is going to go right to Senator Baker's office,
it'll go to Howard Liebengood for him to listen to,
to evaluate it and turn this tape over to the proper
authorities which will be the Justice Department.
You can call Howard Liebengood.to see if he has
received those codes from the Albanian Embassy from
me. You can call him and find out, and also you
can call him at the same time and let him know if
a tape has. been turned over to him. As a matter of
fact when I get there Friday and leave this in his
office I will instruct his people in the office to
get a hold of you, because I'm gonna leave your phone
number with Senator's Baker's people, with Senator
Baker is on, has a Committee on Intelligence...

ML: Mm-hmm.

FS: He's got the committee. It's a new Committee that has
been. formed on intelligence. See, now I am turning this
information over to the proper authorities. See. And —
this information is. not going to go to any newspaper
or anybody... a

ML: Okay, okay Frank. I have your word. It's just that I

got a hang-up, you know I guess, with them working on
practically all my adult life.

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years. I don't want to know everything you did
because you can't.

They were like a family, they were like a family at
one time. Now when I need help they don't come
through and they say it costs too much. It cost me.
a lot of nights in the garbage looking for Albanian
stuff, cost me a lot of worry, cost me a lot of fear,
threats.

Alright so this is why...

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I want some stuff on this thing because if you make a
story up then how are you gonna prove, for instance,

you gonna go ahead.

No I'm not making anything up. I wouldn't lie about

it,

No, no, honey, I'm just saying. “If you're gonna go
ahead and say, hey - I broke into 33, in an apartment
building with. 33 Soviet families, who. did you work
for -- well. I worked for the FBI. They call the FBI,
the FBI said we know nothing about it, Then you are
a liar.

No way am I going to be a liar.

I'm just saying, they're going to say how we gonna
protect this girl when. she's lying to us because the
FBI says no. But if you name names. and say I worked
with this man here, it's got my file, I worked over

a six year period. God damn it - that, that Justice
Department will say, hey baby we want to see you and
we want.to see your. files on this girl. And baby

they got to go and come up with it. And if they don't
come up with it they're in’trouble. They're in
trouble. Now, how could they hide something when they
are working for the same people who are their bosses,
who are their bosses? They can tell you to go jump in
a lake over here. But Washington, D. C. says ~ hey,

I want. to see. something here. Why haven't you given —
this people protection if all. this is true. But if
they don't know, honey, how the hell are they gonna

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I guess if something happens. somebody's gonna know,
you know.

Somebody has to know. Now at the beginning you and
your husband, your husband was manager...

was. the building’ manager of this building.

And he...
Is he still building manager of that building?
Yes, but the way this : going...

Well, honey forget about it right at the present time
because we're getting at the building and we're...

Yes, yes.

He still manages the building. Alright, now, how long
has he been manager of this building?

We raised this building, we
In other words when was the first years...

We were the very first tenants in this building. We

' moved in there before anybody moved in there. We

were the first tenants. The first person to move in
was the first Secretary to the Soviet Mission.

What was his name?

Mr. Vittikoféf.
And who was Mr. Vittikoff?

He was the first Secretary to Malek, the Soviet
Ambassador to the United Nations. .

Would you say a cesspool of spies. which this cesspool
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..where you and your husband worked where he was
manager, you were the first people to live in that
place?

250 East 87th Street, the Newberry, owned by Glenwood
Management, which are crooked,. and that's on the
corner of 2nd Avenue, it's called the Newberry.

Okay, now, who started to move in there?

Our very first tenant was Mr. Ovinikoff, he was the
First Secretary to Ambassador Malek at the United
Nations. (unintelligible)

Alright, go ahead, keep talking into there.

And he's a little guy. He seemed like normal people,
but I never really... co ;

Well how many people eventually moved in there besides

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hames...

Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute now. The
second one who moved in there you called, you nick-
named the

The Stalker.

The Stalker. What was his real name?

Because he, he was, he checked on the Russians. The

Russians checked on the Russians. And if a woman,
Soviet wife, got out of hand or went shopping by her-

self or did something out of the way she got: pulled

back and she was under house arrest.
Alright, what was his name?
Mr. Artimenko, Artimenko. I kept, then I...

Who was the third one you gave a nickname to?

I had nicknames for all of them.

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ML: . Moonface, The Stalker...
FS: Yeah.

_ ML: The Shadow. It was my own little thing of remembering
until I memorized. We started out with the tenants'
list.

FS: Alright, how many people were on the tenants’ list?

ML: We had, the building consisted of 300 units, which
300 apartments, my husband had access to files. Each
Soviet file read the same -- Permanent Mission of the

:‘stUnion. of Soviet Socialist Republic resident, and I
got interested. Then one day an agent came at 9 o ‘clock
in the morning, and my husband had been previously
working with Treasury and other agencies, including
this agent which I'll name, that's Al Chestone.

FS: His first name was what?

ML: ' Albert, Albert Chestone.

FS: What agency was he with?

ML: _ The FBL.

FS: Special Agent, FBI?

ML: Yes, counterintelligence.

FS: Sector of the FBI

ML: Yes, political. And, my husband had known hin

previously working with the Polaris missile, Polaris
missile thing. This was before I met my husband or
married him. He did something with the Polaris

- missile thing. And my husband was paid by this same |
agent. Anyway, we, he came daily and we went over the
tenants' list and we sort of dissected everybody in
the building.

FS: ; Alright now, were you recruited by this agent?
ML: Yes, he said are you willing to work and I said, well,

why not? He said it doesn't consist of much, a few
burglaries (laughter)..

FS: ' In other words this agent...

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and my husband.

FS: And they. wanted you to do some burglaries, right?
ML: Well, I, yes. .

FS: Alright now, these burglaries, did they consist of
you and your husband doing the burglaries or you by

yourself?

ML: _ Well my husband had the master keys.

FS: Right, alright. |

ML: “And...

FS: - Well when you did these burglaries.

ML: We all did them together. They're were about 5, 6,

7 cars. One stationed in front of the Soviet Mission.
Suppose, say Like they were interested in one Soviet
who they lost track of, who was supposed to be in
Washington, D. C., and then they found him all of a
sudden in our building because they had surveillance
across the street. That's the first thing ~ they set
up surveillance, a camera, high-power camera across
the street. That we were pointed out to. That
everybody who went in and out of the building was

photographed.
FS: Including yourself and your husband?
ML: - Oh yeah,me especially in the morning taking my son to
' school and everything..
FS: Right.
ML: But, and...
FS: Alright, now, getting back to the entries that you made ~
into the apartments. Once you found out that the
people were not in the apartments -- how did you find

out they weren't in the apartments?

ML: Well, they would...

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FS: Would you knock on the door or something?

ML: No.

FS: You saw them leave?

ML: . No, no. They were assigned, first of all we were told

that we wanted, they wanted to hit the apartment, the
Bureau, and.I would listen and my husband looked at me
and I looked at him but it was still in the best
interests of the country, and this was a very, very top
KGB agent, a Soviet General, blah, blah, blah, he was

interested...
FS: Do you know the man's name?
’ ML: Yes. |
FS: This General?
ML: . Yes.
FS: What was his name?
ML: Oleg Likichev.
FS: ' What's his name?
ML: Oleg Likichev.
FS: Likichev. He's a top...
ML: KGB spy. ;
FS: Alright, and he lived in the building?
ML: Yes, with his wife and 5 year old son.
FS: Right.
ML: On the 10th. floor.
FS: Alright, now you were advising them when they left

the building. Naturally they had surveillance out~-
side, they would know when he left...

ML: Well first we were told to get close to them, maybe
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ML: Very friendly. We exchanged gifts and we went to.
dinner, and we were invited to the U.N., and we
exchanged. .

FS: In other words you were being guided inte doing
certain things..

ML: No.

FS: | This one particular FBI agent.

ML: This one particular agent told us daily what to do.

FS: Alright now did he give you a code name or a code,
any particular code?

ML: My name, Mariuch.

FS: . Mariuch was the name he gave, that he gave you, right?

_ ML: Mariuch. .

FS: Alright, it sounds Italian. Mariuch is Italian.

ML: Well he... ,

FS: Maria.

ML: He is Italian, too.

FS: ‘The agent?

‘ML: Yes.

FS: Alright, now, when, did you ever make an entry into
this top KGB agent's apartment?

ML: ‘This one particular, there were several. This wasn't
the only one.

FS: Well, let's talk, let's talk about, the, general.

ML: Oleg was, in other words. my husband and I discussed

it and I said, "Louis, you know,'

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Yeah, yeah, I said...

You could get caught, you could be killed.

I said suppose, you know, we're working in the precinct

on a local level’ - that's breaking and entering, right?
And my husband and I dis, you know we discussed it.

Now, Uncle Al - as we started to call this.

FBI agent?

FBI agent, said "Look, he's a very bad person, we lost
him and we found him and he's in the building and we
want to get in the apartment. We feel he has, for
national security reasons, we want to enter that
‘apartment. Louis, will you-cooperate?" You know?

And my husband said, "Alright".

Did he said he had to discuss it with you?
They discussed it in front of me.

I mean did your husband say he had, he would discuss

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asked my husband later, I said, "Louis, if you refuse
to do what Al tells us to do, me as a lookout and
Louis opening the doors for them" Louis said, Louis
is my husband, said "What do you want me to do, get
subpoenaed?. They' 11 sybpoena me if I don't do it. So
I'll go along with it.

So it, it was agreed...
It was agreed that he would do it.

Alright, now what did your husband do. ‘Did he open the
door for the agents?

Yes he did.

Did he go in, for what, one agent, two agents?

Two agents.

Two agents. Was Uncle Al one of those agents?

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FS: Do you know the name of the two agents that made the
entry? .
ML: . No I do not.
FS: Do not.
ML: They came on the specific morning when they had Oleg...
FS: You were by Uncle Al that these two agents
were coming?
ML: Yes.
FS: Alright, on a specific morning?
ML: Yes.
FS: . Alright, and...
ML: _ They came as lumberjacks, one as a refrigeration
repairman.
FS: Right.
ML: Refrigerator, refrigeration-air conditioning repairman.
“FS: Alright, now you and your husband with these two

agents went up.to the 10th floor, right? You were
stationed where you. were going to be the lookout?

ML: In the...

FS: - Hal lway?

ML: © Service entrance.

FS: In the service entrance. Your husband had the pass
keys?

ML: Yes.

FS: He opened the door?

ML: ; Yes.

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Yes.

Did your husband go in?

He stood at the door.

He stood at the door?

He stood at the door.

That is in case they'd come back he'd...

Right. |

The fact that he is the manager of the building
standing there with two repairman.

But that he was assured, he was assured, right.

That these two men were repairmen?

That, that just in case something went. wrong with the
5 cars assigned to this job that one’ car would radio
that Oleg Likichev was leaving the Mission at this

moment, he is getting into his car, he is on the way

-up 2nd Avenue to his residence.

Right, and they...

- You've got approximately 7 to 8 minutes...

Minutes to do what you gott do and get the hell out.
Do, and get out.

Okay.

So, my husband stood in the door and I was in the 7
staircase and they went in with a,:a case that looks
like a television repair case which had high power
cameras.

Right.

And they, my husband was always annoyed because they
were sloppy.

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The Soviets are very trained, they would leave a
cigarette on an ashtray. If you knocked it over they
know immediately someone was in. the apartment.

Now, when the agents, before your husband opened the
door with the pass key, did the agents look the door

' over to see if there was any powder marks, tapes,

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door to signify that possibly when the Cuban general,
this, not Cuban general, this Russian general, who is
a top KGB agent... co

Yes.

wanted to see if somebody made an entry they would
leave something on the door.

Yes.

They inspected the door, right? And they didn’t find

anything?
Right.

Right. So they opened the door. In other words, what-
ever they touched.

But they made a mistake inside on one break-in and
that.

Alright, now, no let's not jump. We're, you were on

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These people did go in, they did what they had to do.
with the cameras and.so forth, evidently these were
hidden..

Yeah.
cameras that they installed some place in there, right?
No, it was microfilm.

Well there were cameras.

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Oh, you mean what the agents brought in?

FS: What the two agents brought in.
ML: Yes.
FS: Yeah, what did they bring in with them, what, in the
- general's... , .
ML: Cameras.
FS: They -brought cameras...
ML: Mm- hmm.
FS: which were installed.
ML: Yeah. | ,
FS: What else did they bring in?
ML: I don't know. They...
FS: Any listening devices, bugging devices?
ML: I would say so. I think...
FS: You don't know for sure, though?
ML: I'm not sure, ny husband...
FS: ‘No, but you do know about the cameras?
ML: Yes. .
FS: Alright, but there is a possibility they brought

bugging devices because it's logical they would
bring bugging devices. .

ML: I think sometimes, plenty of times they wanted to
plant a bug.

FS: Sure.

ML: Especially in the television, the cable IV, the...

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ML: No, in the, they'd hook it up to the master antenna
for the cable TV.
FS: Oh, for the cable TV. Well, yéah, alright.
ML: | That way they thought they could tune in to them
transmitting.
FS: Yeah. Alright, now, how long did they stay in, to
the General's apartment?
ML:. In the apartment, approximately 10-15-20 minutes.
FS: Then they left, your husband closed the door, did he
wipe his fingerprints off the door? Do you know?
ML: No, but my husband would usually put the edge of the
rug back the way he found it.
FS: Right, in other, everything...
“ML: It was turned over.
FS: had to be placed back the same way it was.
ML: And he would watch. them and they were rough.
FS: Well, we'll forget about that part. We're not
interested in.
ML: This worried ny husband because this would...
FS: Yeah, it would make..
ML: They knew..
FS: Make them know there was. an entry.
ML: Right.
FS: Okay, now, they did that, they left. Did, did, did the
agents ever go back into that apartment again?
ML: | No, one time.
FS: Just one. time and they never went back into that.,
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They were satisfied so evidently everything worked out
alright. . Even though..

Mm-hmm.

your husband was on edge about the way the agents
were...

Oh yeah.

Okay? Alright, so we'll forget that part. Now how
about other entries. We'll get one at a time.

The other entry that's outstanding is Soviet..

Yeah, go ahead, keep talking.

Very Americanized Soviet, handsome, married with a 10
year old daughter. I forget his name. I have them
all at home. And, I nicknamed him "The Tennis Player"
because he use to do a lot of jogging and play tennis
every morning to make contacts with Americans, and try
to recruit, I guess, gather information at the same
time.. .He spoke English without an.

(unintelligible)

Fluently, without an accent, down to curses and slang
and everything else. His wife.

You got friendly with him also?

No, he even suggested to take my husband to a massage
parlor and he was way out, too much way out.

In other words, play with girls?
I had his, no, I was, well he was one of those.

He liked to play?

‘Yeah.

He was a playboy.
He was a playboy. That's, they use

Which is very, yeah,

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his apartment, they did his apartment, too.

What did they do?
They broke in, they

Well, now wait a minute.

. used my husband to break in. This a job I wasn't

on but. .
Well, that not breaking in now. It's illegal entry...
Entry.

Right. In other words they used your husband and you
also as a stakeout again?

Yeah.
On that particular one.
Mm-hmm,

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Alright, it makes no difference. Alright, don't

worry about that. But they made entry into his
apartment.

Yes.

What did they do in his apartment?

- I guess they microfilmed and planted a device. Anyway,

either way, whatever they did they did...
With the corpor, cooperation of your husband?
Cooperation of my husband...

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And they did it sloppy because this.particular Soviet,

‘the tennis player, made a formal complaint to the

23rd Precinet, PIU investigation unit, where I was
working.

When you say PIU, what's PIU?

Prisoner Investigation Unit.
Prisoner or Police?
Prisoner Investigation Unit.

Was that a police unit?

‘That's the 23rd precinct.

‘Police.

Right police...

Alright.

department. I was working up there.
Alright. |

Now I answered. the phones.

Oh, hm=tanm

‘You understand?

Yeah.

And this tennis player called up and demanded a

detective. I was working up there and the detectives
were hot on a homicide and I answered the phone and
here it was the tennis player calling to make a formal
complaint of breaking and entering his apartment. I
had him on the phone.

And he didn't know it was you.

And I. died, I tried to disguise my voice and he kept
on talking and talking and talking and I couldn't

disguise my voice. I was afraid he would know that I, .
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ML: And I wrote up the 61.

FS: Go ahead. Now let me ask you this here.

ML: The 61 - complaint report. .

FS: . Alright, let me ask you this here. You say you were

working for this police department in this precinct.
What was your job with them?

ML: Auxiliary volunteer. Photos, translations, rape
cases, interrogation.

FS: And at that time you were answering phone calls that
were coming in?

ML: And typing, and doing other things but I don't really
want to get those guys involved because they...

FS: No, I just wanted, wanted them to know what you were
doing in the police department.

~ ML: I was an auxiliary sergeant.

FS: Answering the phones. Okay.

ML: Auxiliary is a volunteer police.

FS: Right, good enough. Now what other entries did you make
with them. That's two -- that you specified. ,

ML: - Two. The rest I didn't want to go along with because

'* [was a little afraid so my...

FS: Things were getting a little hot for you.

ML: Yes, because we had too many Russians, we had the
Albanians, we had the Red Chinese.

FS: All living in that building?

“ML: All living in the same building. There was, it was

comical. The Albanians wouldn't talk to the Russians,
the Russians ignored the Albanians, the Red Chinese
went down the service entrance and to avoid the
Russians and the Al-, it was just,the Secret Service
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peddlers coming out of the laundry room. It was, it
was a merry-go-round.

FS: In other words,
ML: We had, in one day about four different agencies
watching people. -_
FS: In and out of the building.
ML: And we didn't know if we were coming or going.
FS: Yeah.
ML: We lived on the second floor. We had a view of the

street and we would signal to the, across the street
surveillance apartment, apartment, you know. We'd
see the cars pull up and the cars leave.

FS: Alright, now...

ML: My husband did most of, he'd been doing it.

FS: He'd been doing most of the end of the...

ML: | Yes, because I felt I didn't want to get caught. I

just didn't want to get caught because it was a heck
of a chance because more than one Soviet family lived
on one floor. and if anyone of them walked out when my
husband was opening the door to let those guys in my
husband would have been dead.

FS: Alright, not only that I understand. that you were
getting very familiar with many of the families of...
ML: _ I was too friendly...
FS: "these people.
ML: with the families. _ ;
FS: Right, so you didn't want to go ahead and
ML: They trusted me alone in their apartments. We had many

discussions together, we exchanged medicine, I gave
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FS: At the same time you tried to get as- much information
out of them as you can being on that friendly basis.

ML: I was being on a very social...

FS: Right. .

ML: ' natural basis.

FS: - Right.

ML: And I became friendly with them.

FS: How long, how long...

ML: We even were paid money to throw a few parties.

FS: You were paid money...

ML: —«- For _the Soviets. .

FS: You were given money by the...

ML: By the Justice Department.

FS: Yeah.

ML: To throw a few parties.

FS: So the agents could make surveillance.

ML: | . 50 they could make surveillance. |

FS: And contact?

ML: | And contact, and try to. get them, loosen up, to loosen
up...

FS: Well, booze can loosen a lot of people's mouths.

ML: Well it was mostly their vodka anyway they gave us.

But, yeah they suggested the, using agents as waiters

and bartenders and all that. And I said that wouldn't
go. Soviet people are very trained. They smell any-

thing like that. And I was very open with them. They'd

leave from the countries and I would be the first to
know. They would bring back. gifts. They babysat my
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medicine and I just didn't want anything to go wrong.

But your husband.continued to work with the agency,
right?

Yes. We, we took, we ID'd photos. We watched for
cars. We watched their movement. It was day and night.

You did a lot of surveillance work on these people
but you yourself, personally, wanted to try to keep
out of the...

Yeah.

operation as far as...

Break...

entering into the apartments, right?

Yes.

How long did this last?. Over a period of how long?

1969 to 1976.

‘All these years?

Yes.

That's doing surveillance on these people.

Yeah. We were...

How about the Albanians now, tell me about the code.
The Albanians, the Albanians we got very friendly with

a Mr. Koyani, Ambassador to the Mission, the U.N., and
the Albanians are not as elite as the Russians are.

“The Russians dry clean their own clothes, burn their

own garbage, have no photos, personal things in the
apartment. . The Albanians are more, they allow their
children to watch television. The Soviets don't. We.
convinced the Albanians who had a mission on their
mission, which they blocked a complete fire exit was
on the 21st floor of the Newberry. They lived in the
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they had about 30, 30 families who-resided there and
their mission was there. And we became very friendly
with them because of one incident, especially my

husband, took, went to see his mother and left me in

‘charge of the building. That’ same day they had a so-

called demonstration where the demonstrators had a
25-minute picketing right to picket. .The demonstra-
tion turned into a bloody riot where they burned flags
and everything and the Albanians came down. They ali
are armed. They're all armed, and they agitated the
rioters out on the street. And I was alone with only
my basic police training and my wits, really, and a
panicking doorman and my kids. I was just alone. f,.

the first thing I looked out the window when I heard

the shooting I called the Bureau’ and I said, "Get me
Al Chestone fast."' I said I don't have Louis here.
I said I need help. I have a demonstration. I don't
know what to do. And there were about 500 people
throwing bricks, bottles, everything through the plate
glass windows. Burning American flags and Albanian
flags because of something that happened in Albania.
Those that defected here. started this demonstration.
So.then I, things got out of hand, the doorman was
hurt with a brick. I saw blood, and the Albanian
Ambassador and five. top officials agitated these
people from inside the lobby with fists. Very
unprofessional-like.

Yeah.

So I physically pulled them by their coats and told
them, "Get upstairs, get upstairs and get yourself
back into the mission", because tenants were walking
through the lobby and we were going to get hurt by.
flying glass and everything else. And I had no help.
The police were outside of the line...

Marita, what we're going into details is something

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So we'll go ahead and just bypass that.

Anyway, the Albanians Al was interested into, and

especially because they were admitting the Red Chinese
into the United Nations, which they did. It was that
speech, which I have the original copy of. Ambassador
Rocco Nocco - sounds crazy, but that's his name, Rocco

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Nocco, and they were, they were sloppier, and the
agent Al Chestone told me convince them, you know,
case ‘em, keep going up and down the steps, what
time they throw their garbage out. Garbage was
the most valuable source of information for the
Bureau, and that was...

Garbage and trash.

Trash. Chicken bones, codes, diapers, whatever, you
know, and that was my job because I had the patience.
Now the FBL supplied me with bandaids and gloves,
flashlights, batteries and the whole thing, because

I convinced the Albanians that the compacter, which
was the disposal system in. the building from 31 floors
down -- in other words when they threw their garbage
out that it would come out in brick form, block form,
brick crushed, which in fact was not true.

But: they believed it?

They believed it. They trusted us. Louis and I were
the only ones allowed in the mission. We were the
only ones.

Now this mission is that building you were talkin
about. 7

That's still there.

(still there.

Very much there. That's the code that you have.
Right.

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entrance and take the bags at home, take ‘em home.

And go through the orange peels and chicken bones and
gather torn up letters, this was before they got smart
and bought a shredder (unintelligible). And I would
turn this garbage letter, in other words, I would

past it together and give it to the Bureau and some

of these letters turned out to be very valuable. Among
them was one code, now...

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I would assume that these letters that were in code
they would be classified material. Otherwise it
wouldn't be in. code.

Very valuable, yes. The...
And this was turned over to who?

To Al Chestone. The first code I got, I just got on
a hunch lucky. Because it was just at. the time when
the Red Chinese entered the United States, first
came here. Mr. Huang Yua, and I met them. We met
them first before anybody met them, Louis and I.

And that same night the code came down at 3:00 in ‘the
morning and I just had a hunch and I got up and I
said, “Louis I can't sleep, I'm going down and do
some work. Give me the keys to the compacter room."
So I went downstairs and I waited and sure enough
around 3:30 these bags started to come down from the
2lst floor.

3:30 in the morning?

3:30 in the morning because Al said watch them
closely, because of the Red Chinese. And I shut
the machine off and I got these, I got this code,
I caught it in other words, but it...

'This is the code you turned over to me?

This is the first code, the very first code, at the
risk of having my hands chopped off because if I
didn't shut that machine off in time I could have
been hurt. But I.got it. The first code was very

valuable. It was sent to Washington.

(End of tape - side 2).

...these bags of stuff and if you hadn’t have turned
off the machine you would have got your hand either

chopped up or cut off, and so forth. What did, were
you saying about Al, Uncle Al?

Uncle Al slept and I did the work, and by the time I
got upstairs and took the orange peels and everything
out of the garbage and separated the letters and

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put it all in a box, right down to every piece. I
ruined my rugs and everything. And Uncle Al would
come at 8:30, 9:00 in the morning and I would still
be up separating the garbage and he'd be.all fresh
and ready for work and-I had just come back from the
garbage room. And.

You stayed awake all night?

Yeah, with the tweezers and I use. to run out of
skotch tape which was frustrating cause I couldn't
stick these letters togethers without skotch tape,

so he brought me a big box of skotch tape which

was very kind of him. Then I would give it to him
and he'd, he'd have coffee, tea and toast or whatever.
And I'd say, "Now I want to go to sleep." And he'd
say, No, no, no, wait a minute. Mr. So-and-so,

or Berzofsky, we want to get a line on Mr. Berzofsky.

Who was Mr. Berzofsky? -

Berzofsky, the Second Secretary to the Union of the
Soviet Socialist Republic.

What was his. first name, do you know?
Mumm, I forgot. .
That's alright, it don’t matter.

I forgot really. But we were very close to him. His
wife was a surgeon in the Soviet mission and she was,
she's, she's adorable. She's nice, she's sweet and
she has a lovely daughter, Irene, who turned out to
have liver cancer. She was a little girl when I first -
met her, like my daughter. My daugher played with her,
they took piano lessons together, exchanged books, and
the little girl, at sixteen, Irene was sent back to
the Soviet Union with liver cancer. I got very close
to the mother, the mother was heartbroken, the father

-was heartbroken. I guess like any mother. and father

when their only child turns out to have liver cancer.
She's diagnosed as such in the Soviet Union and they
asked me to get medicine, pain killers for Irene. [I
do so and pass along to them empirin and codine #4,
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the FBI. We exchanged jewelry, clothes, and everything
else. We were just one mother to another mother.

Their little girl in trouble, mine not in trouble and
it was little things like that that I would get very
involved with. I don't know...

Morita let me ask you this here, did the agents ever .
tell you to go out with any of the diplomats in the
mission?

Well, now.we have to go back to Oleg, Oleg Likichev.

And who is he again?

He was the KGB spy that they lost and. thought he, they
thought he was still residing in Washington, the out-
side of Washington, D. C., in Virginia. He was
supposed to have last been seen in Virginia somewhere
and all of a sudden they picked him up in our building,
as being in our building. They. lost him and they were
furious, the Bureau, and they wanted us very close to
him. And he, we had:a' lot of evenings together we
spent with hin, dinners, and he came to us,

In other words he asked you to go out, did he ask
(unintelligible)

Well, Oleg, Oleg, let's just say, I don't know if it
was a game they were playing or if they were doubles
or what. They talked a.lot about the State of
Washington, residing in the State of Washington.
They also. knew I had diamonds and he asked me,

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Llonka Marischa, Tlona Marita.
Oh, that's in Russian?

Yes. And we always exchanged Russian words and I
know a few, enough to get by on. All of a sudden,

you know, he was interested in diamonds. He had a

fascination for diamonds. His wife, she was kind
of sweet on my husband he was kind of sweet on me
and I kept telling Uncle Al this thing is going to
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diamonds, and Al, what do I do. Go ahead, talk to
him about diamonds. So I said Oleg, what do you
mean by diamonds? He said uncut stones for cash.

I am a Soviet official, I cannot go into a jewelry
store like you and buy them. .I want diamonds. I'm
willing to pay a hundred thousand dollars for them.

I said, I said tell me why, Oleg. And he said,
“Money, why does anybody want diamonds." I said it's
a good enough reason. So I said, "Hey, Louis, what
can we do for Oleg about his diamonds?" And Louis
said we'll figure something out. And then Oleg said,
this was at a dinner party up in their house. Hot
diamonds, he wanted hot, uncut, raw diamonds. So

he was serious, he was dead serious. He said he
would buy them for cash.

FS: . How serious was he? Did you ever get any for him?

“ML: Well it got this far. We told Uncle Al the next
morning. I said, "Uncle Al, I got a surprise for
you. You're gonna have to come up with some hot
diamonds. A hundred thousand dollars worth because
I promised Oleg that I would get them for him since

‘he can't buy them. Oleg wants diamonds." And I
said if you can put two and two together maybe this
guy will defect because he's talking. about the State
of Washington. I said but you have to be careful,

I have to be careful, no? So Al said I'll get you
the diamonds. You tell him to get the cash ready.
So Uncle Al went to an underworld source and got
the diamonds. Uncle. Al made a boo-boo and Oleg, the
day of the exchange I was supposed to make the sale
in tthe.apartment, Oleg was at a sports meeting in
Washington,D.C. Uncle Al said, "I've got to give
these diamonds back to the underworld.or give them
the cash." I said, "Listen, I told you tomorrow,
not today, Al. Tomorrow, because Oleg told us he's
going to this soccer meeting in Washington, D.C. _
Alright whatever the kind of meeting it is. He is
in Washington, D. C."" "Oh is he?" I said, "Yes,
he is." Right. Anyway, Uncle Al started to panick
because he was in my house with a hundred thousand
dollars worth of uncut, hot diamonds.

FS: By himself?

ML: By himself, and I was supposed to. get the cash from
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a Wednesday and the whole thing... .
FS: So what happened?

ML: | fell through. Al said he had to give them back to
the underworlds, to his source. So he took them
back and then Oleg, you know, I had to talk my
way out of it. It was just one of the flubs. But
anyway after I left my husband Oleg kept asking for
me, kept coming directly to the apartment and say-

- ing, “Louis, I don't believe you two split, you two
go, she left.. I don't believe it." And my. husband
said "yes,.she did leave. It's her own problems,
Oleg, you know, forget about it." And he said,
"No, it's not possible. You must stay together.
You must stay. together.'' Anyway, he kept coming,
about four times and asking my husband, until. my
husband made a joke of it and said Oleg wants to
see you. I mean he's made it dam plain that he
wants to see you. In other words if you're
finished I'll take over. Where is she living? My
husband tells him I'm living on 88th Street. Now
I talked to my husband and I said what did you do
that for? Tell him I'm living on.88th Street?

You know, because I know he wants to go out with
me. You can feel it, I can feel it, the, you know?
So I call up,Uncle Al meantime is transferred to
Newark, I get another case agent. Louis gets a
case agent for the building and he works alone,
without me. The other agent is: John Kotter.

FS: -With the FBI?

ML: FBI, 69th Street. I call up John Kotter. I said,

"John,I hear your taking. Al's place", and I meet
him. Drop things, start things, drop things,
different assignments, then we get to Oleg. I said
look, Oleg is bothering Louis. He wants to go out
with me. And John Kotter says, "Beautiful, that is
a beautiful setup. Let's call him up." TI said,
“Hey, wait.a minute. Either do this sophisticated,
alright? . First I'll send him a Christmas card and
sign it Ilonka Marischa, you know? I'11 put ny
phone number on the bottom, something you know?
Or I'1l happen to be |there when he's going into the
building, or I'll bump into him." I said you don't
just call him.up. You know that's going to be like
a setup because I've/been avoiding him. So, anyway,
he tells, he outlines the whole thing.. I said what
have you got. planned, John. And he says, "Do you

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And I'm in the middle. So, anyway; I go, I go to the
mission with my daughter, who was at the time 12 years
old. My daughter, I guess, is a little use to my
life. She's use to FBI all her life. She knows not
to talk. She knows whether we look at her when to
say something. I guess she's the closest thing to me
now. She goes along. She's very cool and we both
walked into the mission on the pretense that she had
to do a project for school on the Soviet Union. She
needed material. Now as soon as we walked into*the
mission everybody there I know because they reside in
the building. . And they all say, "“Ilonka Marischa
blah, blah, blah, blah." And I'm very friendly with
them all. They all love my daughter. But we're
there for other reasons. We're there to go to see
Oleg. We gather, we gather the material, meanwhile
I'm aware that every picture has an eye or every
poster has a mirror or camera, you know? But my
daugher's very cool and we're left alone in the room
where the Soviet material is displayed. But I know
we're being watched. She knows it too and she
doesn't, she says, "Mommy, look, this is beautiful,
beautiful." You know? Then I ask for Oleg to this
very, very tough Soviet woman that said "What you
want?", you know. I said "Oleg Likichev, please.

I'd like to speak to him.” And she called and he

is still in the United Nations, he asks you to wait.
I refused a wire or anything like that, but...

What wire are you talking about?
A wire on me.

Oh. |

Because...

That the agents (unintelligible)

Yes, because Oleg I know likes me and if he sees me
he would grab me and hug me and that's the Russian

way...

Yeah.

And he'll feel that and I'm dead.
Right. .
Right in the mission. That's not my proper there. —

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And I wouldn't risk it with my daughter. So, anyway,
we waited. We were allowed the run of the place. We
knew everyone there and...

Like you say, eyes were watching you.

Oh definitely, definitely, because that's how they
test you when you walk in there. And you just don't
get in there and have the run of the place, you're
not left alone. But I know you're being watched. ~

Sure.

Anyway, there was this, it was, it was a legitimate
excuse that Oleg was tied up in the United Nations
because it was in the paper the next day, that it
was some security council meeting. And I said
"Please give this note to Mr. Likichev. Tell him
thank you. very much for the material. And best
wishes to his wife, blah, blah, blah," and we left.
Funny thing is the cop outside almost arrested us,
a uniformed police officer.

For what reason? -

He gave us a dirty look and made a very slurring,
nasty remark when I left. But I hate to knock the
police department because they're helping me now.
But, I guess, he didn't know, you know?

Yeah, he thought you were Russians.

He thought I was a Russian.

Or a Russian sympathizer.

Right, especially going in with a child and I looked
very...

‘Yeah.

American. Anyway, I got home and John Kotter was
waiting in front of my door. I remember it was
raining. He was reading. And I said, he said "Are
you going to meet Oleg?" I said, "Now how the hell
can I make a date with Oleg with my daughter?"

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ML: I said Oleg's in the United Nations. Why don't you
tell me these things before that they're delayed at
a security council meeting, you know, instead of me
letting, letting me sit there. You know these are .
all the little things that use to annoy me...

FS: ° Yeah.

ML: _ that they have to screen things first before, you
know - check things out, don't have to make a blunder
like that. Anyway, I said I left Oleg a note. I
said now you go home and I'm going to take it easy
and they, we tried, and I said, "You know, John, .
you're just going to get me so involved. with Oleg.
I'm not going to end up in bed in a motel room
upstate somewhere with Oleg so you can come in and
take photographs. That's not my stick." I said
I'll gather garbage, get license plates, tape, do
everything else, but, I'll even take the mail, like
I've been doing, but I'm not going to be caught in
bed. I said that's too big a pawn for me and I'm
not getting anything for it right now. They allowed
me to take mail, steam it, photograph it and put it
back. Some of that mail is now missing, which
belongs to the Soviet people, which this perpetrator,
perpetrator has and wants to blackmail me with and I
asked the FBI to please help me with that.

FS: ' Who's. the perpetrator?

ML: The perpetrator is Guiseppi Faisiano, aka Pionne,
aka David Ring, who broke into my apartment and stole
this tape with Oleg Likichev, these love conversations,
the mail, and part of the Albanian code. He has those
in his possession. He threatens my life with it. He
threatens blackmail with me. He assaulted me. He
pistol-whipped me and I asked the Bureau for help.

FS:> | Did he try to throw you out the 18 story build-, window?
ML: Yes.

FS: He did what?

ML: ' Yes, he tried to push me out the window.

FS: 18 stories?

ML: Yes, and I told him stay away, get back, because if

anything happens to me there's letters with the
Justice Department naming everything I know about you,

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and he stopped cold. He threatened to shoot. my
daughter in the back. He's threatening her right
now with disgrace because she is the daughter of

the, of a well-known man. Right now my main concern
is the, these letters and the code and the tape and
possibly other things, are in the hands of this
Guiseppi Faisiano, and he wants money from me and
he's probably right now at the building. He is
casing the Soviets and he's going to try to go to
the same people that he has on the letters to tell
them that I was an informant for the FBI for revenge,
for having him arrested on’the assault charge with a
gun. He also wants money. He wants to disgrace the
FBI. He's blackmailing right now my husband, my ex-
husband, for the master keys of the Newberry. My
husband is calling me for help and I don't know what
to do. I asked Frank to help me. I gave him the
code because everybody refused. I was afraid to have
any~, anywhere. I guess Frank helped me before in
Cuba and I don't, I worked, he worked for me and I
worked for him and I don't know where to go because,
the only ones that are helping me now are the local
police - in their lunch hours or when I'm too afraid
to leave the house they buy me milk and fruit for the
kids. And they'll take the children home when I get
a threat on the phone or a box in the mailbox or get
my back door shot at. I take my children and I put
them in the 23rd precinct.

They even, off duty...

The off-duty police, police officers take my children

home...
And they spend time at the house?

And they spend time at the house in their free time

when they should be home with their families.

Well you have saved the life of two people, right?
I would think so.

Well, you have.

. Yes.

When, one of the, who are the two people you saved

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_- A federal narcotics informant..

Undercover agent, right?

Undercover agent Pino Cantanya, and Assistant Federal
District Attorney Thomas A. Puccio from Brooklyn.

And you saved their lives because a contract was

being put out on them?

Yes because I overheard and everything I said checked
out.

And even though you have saved their lives.

I asked them please help me with this man, he has
Soviet documents, he's hurt me, he's hurt my

children, he almost shot my daughter. He, I asked
them please help me because I gave you information

for nothing and they said they promised to do something
on this individual immigration-wise. So far he has
threatened everybody around me. My physicians, my
mother, my ex-husband, my. children, my neighbors, my
super.

He's an illegal immigrant?

He is. I would say he's an illegal alien.

What's his full name, his real name?

His arrest name, that he was arrested under was
Guiseppi Faisaino. He has, he's also known as David
Ring. He has a passport under this name. He's also
known as Pinno, and he is a gunman. Never worked a
day in his life, never paid taxes, he's a gambler,
he's a stick-up man and I worked for the FBI on.
organized crime. at the racetrack. Roosevelt Raceway,
Yonkers, and...

Any other agencies?

Organized Crime Commission Bureau, OCCB.

Ever worked with DEA? Drug Enforcement Agency?

Yes I. did.

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Who are the people you are in touch with?

‘Two agents, Murphy and Shannon. This was...

You know their full names?

Well I have a day number and a night number and

I did some work in the Newberry with my husband
with them involving the Cuban narcotics connection
in South America. I also worked with the organized
crime, gambling. —

Now you've turned, you want me.to turn this tape
over to Senator Baker's committee to be turned over
to the Justice Department, is that correct? Right?

Yes.
You want me turn the...

Yes, I would like you, Frank, to turn this over just
in case something happens to me because I don't know
which way it's going to come.

And you need some protection, right now, right?

I need some type of help for my. children, because of
this man Pinno threatening to expose my dealings with
the FBI and to the foreign press. I just caught up
in-this thing since 1959 and I've been with it up ©
until last month, last week and I've just, and I need
help. There is no help. I mean since last month and
I don't want my children hurt. They've already been
hurt.

Alright, I promise to turn this tape and the code over

to Senator Baker's. committee, right?
Yes.

Who in turn will turn the information over to the
proper officials in Washington, D. C.

Yes. I don' t mean to embarass the Bureau. I know how
important it is but at this point I need help
desparately for my kids. They're 6 and 14 and they
don't deserve what they have to go through. The
whole summer locked up, threatened and afraid, and

my daughter of exposure.

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the kids?

They threatened to kidnap my children. They were
once abducted by this man. I had no knowledge of
it. On the last day of school and he, he will

hurt them. He will hurt them - this man is sick. ,
He's, he's on 10 valiums a day. He's unpredictable.
He's vengeful. , ,

And his close association with top mobsters?

Yes he has close associations...

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Cs ‘o 2 : CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY .
WASHINGTON. D. Cc. 20505 :
22 Jure (976
del} (bes AA’76 ——
Tfonorable Daniel Inouye, Chairman * '

Select Committee on Intelligence -_
United States Senate : ree
Washington, D.C. 20510 ,

Dear Mr. Chairman;

Iam sending you a copy of my letters to
Senators Mansfield and Scott extending the moratorium |
nthe destruction of certain records until 10 December
1976, £ do hepe that this action and the procedures
outlined in my letters are fully responsive to the .
interests of your Committee. :

Sincerely,

Pr

‘Geo
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON, D.C, 20505

22 JUN 1976

Honorable Mike Mansfield
United States Senate :
Washington, D.C. 20510

Dear Senator Mansfield:

In accordance with your letter of 10 June 1976, we have
extended the period of the moratorium’on the destruction of certain .

records which were the subject of your letter of 27 January 1975 .
in connection with S. Res. 21. The moratorium will expire on ?
10 December 1976, . . , »

In addition, before any such records are destroyed, we :
shall transmit to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence copies - ‘ 2. 8
of the record schedules which are submitted to the National Archives ; :
and Record Service for their approval prior to the destruction of any
records. The same will be done with respect to those routine |
administrative records which, although not involved under 8S, Res. 21, |
-were withheld from routine destruction during the life of that Resolution.
Iam confident that suitable arrangements can be made for review of
documents -before they are destroyed if this is the desire of the Select
Committee. A -

It is noped that these arrangements are fully responsive to
the wishes of you and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
as outlined to me in your letter of 9 June and Chairman Inouye's

‘letter of 8 June to you. ;

Sincerely, ; me.

George Bush
_. Director

ec: Chairman Daniel [Inouye

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505.

Honorable Hugh Scott A . 82 JUN 497
United States Senate ; : . ” )
Washington, D.C. 20510 ; ;

Dear Senator Scott:

In accordance with your letter of 10 June 1976, we have
extended the period of the moratorium on the destruction of certain ;
records which were the subject of your letter of 27 January 1975 .
in connection with S. Res. 21. The moratorium will expire on 0 e
10 December 1976. i :

In addition, before any such records are destroyed, we
shall transmit to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence copies © -
of the record schedules which are submitted to the National Archives .
and Record Service for their approval prior to the destruction of any
records. The same will be done with respect to those routine
administrative records which, although not involved under S. Res. 21,

. were withheld from routine destruction during the life of that Resolution.
Lam confident that suitable arrangements can be made for review of

documents before they are destroyed if this is the desire of the Select
Committee. ; :

It is hoped that these arrangements are fully responsive to
the wishes of you and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
2s outlined to me in your letter of 9 June and Chairman Inouye's
letter of 8 June to you, oe a

Sincerely, —
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Jume 7, 1976

Henerable Michael J, Mansfield
United Stetes Senate
133 Russell Bldg.

Washingtes, DG 20516

Bear Seneter Mansfield:

Geerge Bush's letter te Senater Hugh Scott, with a copy te
you, of the 2nd of June is disturbingly ambigueus. In stetiag
thee the CLA aoe beliewea icself relieved of the resppasibility
of maintaining deta "which were subject te imvestigation by che
Reckefeller Commission and the Select Combittee," ehe Agency
failed te meke any effort te identify whet materiale were targeted
fog destruction and which weren't. Further, the saxt te last sy
sentence of Mr. Bush's Letter, "I trust yeu (Senates Seott) egres . a
-¢hat thie sctien ig now meceseery and apprepriate, and I vould a
appreciate your ceafimmation ef this understanding,” bse led
seme ebservers in the Senate te conclude ne dsstructicn will
take place until such demfirmation ine been givem. Tris dose

be trus. Neither the press office nor the lagia-
Sana would confirs that destruction of data has aes
alveady eccurred, er would sot occur without acquisence fron the |
Senate leadership. Te ths contrary, the legislative ceunsel’e
office informed this group that the “precess" of destruction has
aireeady beg.

The eetion of che Ceetral Intelligence Ageacy ia wrang.
The new Seleet Coumitese om Intelligences should have bean
censuleed pries te the destruction ef any aaterials which wight
be vical to the propery funeticning of that committes and which
ia any case ave within the legisletive aad eversight demain of
that caamiteem Chadgmen Inouye and Vica-Chalrasa Baker, along
with the membership of the Intelligence Cemmittes sheuld heve
the epportundey te review the data selected for destruction and
to deternise, im conjunetien with tha CIA, thegpregriety of
destroying ex waiuceining such data.

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Hom. Michael Mansfield
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fe urge , Senater Mansfield, to take whatever steps
nacessary to {mmadiataly hale the unilateral act undestaken by —
the CIA @@ destroying possibly critical and ixrepleceabie
government documents, ,

Siaserely yours,

Jemes Humphreys

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MIKE MANSFIELD J
MONTARES. ; ; Copy for Senator Bakery

Purited States Senate ' : . 7
Office of the Majority Dexter
Washington, BC. 20510
June 7,.1976

‘Honorable Daniel K. Inouye

- Chairman

Select Committee on Intelligence

United States Senate ; os
Washington, D. C. : :

Dear Mr. Chairman: .

We have received a letter from the Honorable George Bush,
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, relative to the destruc»
tion of papers and material which he has held for sometime relative
to our request. Our action was taken to facilitate the inquiry being
undertaken by your predecessor committee under the chairmanship of
Senator Frank Church.

In view of the fact, as we assume, that all of Senator
Church's committee records have been turned over to your permanent
Select Committee, we would appreciate your advising us as to whether
or not you want our original letter to stand and the papers and other
mateviala to still be held. Could you give us the judgment of you
and your Committee on this matter? ,

With best wishes, we are

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” CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON,.D.G. 20505 -

2 June 1976 |

Honorable Mike Mansfield

. United States Senate
Office of the Majority Leader
Washington, D.C, 20510 ©

Dear Senator Mansfield:

On 27 January 1975, following adoption of S. Res. 21 creating the
Select Committee on Intelligence, you and Senator Hugh Scott requested
that the Central Intelligence Agency not destroy, remove from [its]. pos~
session or control, or otherwise dispose or permit the disposal of any
records or documents which might have a bearing on the subjects under
investigation, including but not limited to all records or documents per-
taining in any way to the matters set out in section 2 of S. Res. 21, "

In response to this request, the Agency placed in effect a complete
moratorium on the destruction of records, including normal administrative
records scheduled for routine destruction. .

The purpose of this letter is to advise you that it is our intention to
proceed with destruction of records, now that the Select Committee has
completed its investigation and issued its final report. We have so advised
Senator Church. ;

Along with the backlog of routine administrative records, the Agency
will destroy records which were collected and maintained by the Agency .
and which were subject to investigation by the Rockefeller Commission
and the Select Committee. The Agency is required to destroy much of
this latter material by the Privacy Act of 1974 (P. L. 93-579) and by
Executive Order 11905. Of course, all records destruction will be fully
consistent with other applicable laws, Presidential directives, and the
requirements of pending litigation and Justice Department investigations.

I trust you agree that this action is now necessary and appropriate,
and I would appreciate your confirmation of this understanding.

' Lam sending a duplicate of this letter to Senator Hugh Scott.

; ; : Sincerely,

[oA

Gedyge Bush
Director

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JOHN G. TOWER, TEXAS, VICE CHAIRMAN

PHILIP A. HART, MICH. HOWARD H. BAKER, JR., TENN,
WALTER F. MONDALE, MINN. BARRY GOLDWATER, ARIZ.
WALTER D. HUDDLESTON, KY. CHARLES MCC. MATHIAS, JR, MD.

ROBERT MORGAN, N.C. *. 7 RICHARD 3. SCHWEIKER, PAs eo
GARY WAM CORD. en tavamanen Wnited States Senate
FREDERICK A. 0. SCHWARZ, JR., CHIEF COUNSEL,

CURTIS R, SMOTHERS, MINORITY COUNSEL SELECT COMMITTEE TO

STUDY GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS WITH
RESPECT TO INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES

(PURSUANT TO 8. RES. 21, 86TH CONGRESS)
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20510

February 11, 1976

Professor E. W. Pfeiffer
University of Montana
Missoula, Montana 59801

Dear Professor Pfeiffer:

Senator Mansfield has informed me that you did not
receive my letter to you of December 19, concerning the
work of the Select Committee. JI am therefore enclosing

a copy for your information.

Sincerely,

William G. Miller
Staff Director

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MIKE MANSFIELD
_ MONTANA

- Hnited States Sonate

Office of the Majority Lender

Washington, B.C, 20510

December 15, 1975

Professor E. W. Pfeiffer
University of Montana,
Missoula, Montana 59801

Dear Professor Pfeiffer:

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This will acknowledge your letter of December 2.

I will be glad to contact Mr. Miller again and ask him to

respond to your request.

_ _ Sincerely yours,

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Must close now, but with best personal wishes, I am _

University of Montana

Missoula, Montana s9ao1
(406) 243-0211
January 8, 1976

Senator Mike Mansfield
United States Senate
Washington, LC 20510

Dear-Senator Mansfield:

Thank you for your letter of December 15th in which you state that you
would contact “r. Miller and ask him to respond te my request. I am sorry
to bother you again bit T have had no word from Mr. Hiller. As you know,

I feel that the matter is of su?ficient importance that it deserves a reoly
or at least an acknowledgement of a-receipt of my letter from Hr. Miller.

‘
Sincerely yours,

E. ad. Pfeifter

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- December 19, 1975
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aon I regret that we simply do not have the time or re-

gources to investigate the matter which understandably con-
‘ cerns you. This does not deny its importance. I hope one
of the other committees may better be able to help you.

Sincerely,
ee ee William G. Miller ~ Seo tt te
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ae I regret that we simply do not have the time or re-
sources to investigate the matter which understandably con-
cerns you. This does not deny its importance. I hope one.
of the other committees may better be able to help you.

‘Sincerely,

Cpa hte one  Willdam G. Miller > _
” , —_ Staf£& Director

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‘Professor E. W. Pfeiffer

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mee FT Please forgive the delay in replying to your inquiries. . es
“The press of business on the Select Committee has been ex~- moe
* cessive. : ,

The Committee has indeed considered a number of problems

 eoencerning the role of U.S. intelligence agencies in Indochina. _
cutive session on CIA paramblitary- ="

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‘an effective job of presenting recommendations for legislation .

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> mittee, we have had to conce
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University of Montana ; Decemver 2, 1975

Missoula, Montana s9so1.

(406) 243-0211

Senator Mike Mansfield
U.S. Senate Office 3uilding
Washington, D.C. 20510

Dear Senator Mansfield:

fou may recall that some weeks ago you were kind enough to arrange a
meeting between myself and Mr. William Miller, of the staff of the Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence. You arranyed this meeting for me so that I could
present documents, which I showed you, relating to possible CIA illegal activ-
ities in Indochina. Specifically, as you know, I have long been interested in
the problem of who carried out the massive defoliation raids against Cambodia,
one year prior to the U.5. incursions into that country and during a time when,
formally, there were normal relations between the United States and the Royal
government of Cambodia. After talking with you about the matter, I met, for

» about one-half hour, with Mr. “iller and showed him the documents I showed you.

“ He made some notes and assured me that the question of possible illegal activ-.
ities of the CIA in Indochina, including Cambodia, was on the agenda of his
committee. Sometime ago, I wrote hr. Miller to find out when he expected the
committee might look into Indochina. However, as has deen. the case since
ceived no angwer, “not even an acknowledgement of receipt. IT have just read
in the press that the Senate Intelligence Committee expects again to look at-
Chile, Cuba, etc., but there is no indication of any interest in Indochina.
I would greatly appreciate your help in learning whether, in fact, the Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence will look into possible illegal coltert opera-
tions of '.5, intelligence agencies in Indochina. I would also appreciate
your views as to what I should do to get an investigation of the massive clan- i
destine herbicide attack on Cambodia (1969). This was a unique operation in
technological history of foreign relations and as a biologist I am most inter-
ested and concerned to get the full story on this bizarre incident. If the
Senate “elect Committee will not ask obvious questions of the intelligence
community, I would greatly appreciate your views on whomI should turn to, to
ask these questions.

IT want to thank you again for your helo on my last trip to Washington. Tf
regret that I have to keep bothering you about this matter, but I do hope you
understand my concern, based on my personal observations in Indochina, that —
the facts about cdlfert operations there be publically determined.

E. iy Preirt ro

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’ Professor E. W. Pfeiffer
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. Dear Professor Pfeiffer:
lying to your inquiries.

roy Please forgive the delay in rep
Committee has been ex-

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cessive.

as indeed considered a number of problems

of U.S. intelligence agencies in Indochina.

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operations in Laos. Staff members have also investigated sev-.

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- concerning the role

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: {gsues rather than others. The Committee has concluded that
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“ agencies may be established to follow the Select Committee.
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‘of the lingering, unresolved issues which remain. The problem
-of use of herbicides in Indochina might also be eonsidered with-
-in the jurisdictions of the Committees on Foreign Relations or

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receive ny letter to you of Bec rv 19, concerning the
work of the, Select Committee. am therefore enclosing

J a on
/ Sincerely,

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a letter he had written to Professor E. W. Pfeiffer of the University of
Montana,: stating that. Senator Church had reliable information that Air

- America was ‘responsible ‘for defoliation operations in Cambodia. A
copy of Senator Church's letter had been sent to the Director for cornment.

by Professor Arthur/H. Westing, Windham College in Vermont. 1

explained to the Senator we were much concerned over this allegation and
I added that while we -

the Director authorized me to deny it categorically.
the identity ‘of the Senator's source, ,we were curious

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if “rt Miller: i .

In, response to your recent request about allegations
Agency. involvement in Cambodia, please be advised |that
GH «| Ralston was’ given a copy of a 197l/letter from
ator: Church to Professor Pfeiffer and a copy.of a
qmorandum for the record reflecting a,conversation
queen Senator Church and our Legislative Counsel about
Hel specific. allegation concerning theijuse of herbicides
1 (Cambodia in 1969. ;

I These |memoranda were furnished Professor Pfeiffer
response to his FOIA request. ; ale

ii . -. Sincerely,

| _ beat Elder!
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bel regret that we simply do not have the time or re-|;
asl to investigate the matter which understandably con-
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you, This does not deny its importance. I hope on

pj other committees may better be able to help: ‘you. |)

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Staff Director

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into that country and during a tine when,
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the matter, I mets
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been) ‘the case since.

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Committee an Intellipence. Tou arrunred this meeting:

present documents , which I showed you, relutins to poss

ities, in jitadochina.

thei problem of who carried out the massive defoliation raids against Cénbodia,

one year [prior to the U.%. incursions

formally | there were normed relations

povernment [of Cambodia. After talking with you about

about onewhalf hour,} with fr. f

He made some notes and assured me that the question o

ities of ithe CIA in |Indochiha, including Cambodia, wa

committed! || Sometime ago

committee) might Look into Indochina. However, as has

August, with respect to comminications from this committee, If have as yet re-
_ ceived no answer, not even an acknowledsement of rece

in the pr
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al- history of foreign relations and as a biologist I ain most | Hinter-.
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questions of the intelligence
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. THE MISSOULIAN P.O. BOX 1335 - S00 N. HIGGINS AVE, MISSOULA, MONTANA | TEL. (406) 842-0311 :

Oct. 23, 1975

Mr. Williem G. Miller, Staff Director

Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations
With Respect to Intelligence Activities

Room 607, Capitol Hill Hotel

Washington,..D,C, 20510 - ~~ =

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Dear Mr. Miller:

Recently I discussed with Dr. E, W. Pfeiffer, University of Montana
zoologist, an incident in which he has had an ablding concern: the.
herbicide attack that occurred in eastern Cambodia in the spring of “7°

As I understand it, from my talks with ‘Dr. Pfeiffer andfrom my
review of the correspondence he has received from various agencies,
there is no doubt that the attack actually occurred, that it wag
large and significant, and that the nature of the chemicals and
aircraft involved indicate that the U.S. hada direct role in
carrying it out.

: Yet it seems the state. and Defense departments, the CIA and the
"nrivate" CIA-affiliate Air America have all denied in one way or
another that they conducted the attack.

‘The obvious question is who dia make the attack? Who ordered ‘it,

why was it ordered and under what authority? Dr. Pfeiffer has ;
indicated your committee is looking into this matter and that. the
affair may ultimately be discussed in-the. course of Select Committees

hearings at some point.

Is it nossible for you bo tell me the status of your inauiry? Would
‘it be anpropriate at this time for our newspaper to interview Dr,
Pfeiffer and write -a news story on the documents he has received,

fi or would ‘such a s tuely bénefit from new information your committes
“7. efforts may resurrect within the near future?

*. {Thanks in advance for your interest. We have followed with great
' interest the Select Committee efforts to date..

For | ONES

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Don Schwennesen }

Ohrem, a Environmental Writer va
Western Moitema's. Leading Newapaper _ | ® sates

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Dear Mr. Miller:

Through the good offices of Senator Mansfield, we met, some
weeks ago to discuss certain problems related to possiblqCIA
activity in Cambodia. As you know,I am particularly interested
in why the CIA cannot or will not find out who carried out the
massive herbicide attack against Cambodia in the spring of 1969.6
The CIA has under the Freedom of Information Act provided me
with some documents from my file which bear directly upon this
strange episode and Senator Church's efforts to find out information
for me. When we met you indicated that CIA activities in Indochina
were to be investigated by the Select Comittee. I would greatly
appreciate krowing about when you think this subject will come
up. I would also very much like to submit some of the documents
I have received from the CIA and my personal testimony to the
Committee. I believe that Professor A. Westing and myself. were
the last official guests of the Sihanouk regime before it was

temporarily deposed.
I look forward to hearing from you on these matters.

Sincerely yours,

SU

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Aug. 6, 1975

Mr. Paul Wallach

Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Room. G 308 Dirksen Building
Washington, D.C. 20510

Dear Mr. Wallach:

As decided in our phone conversation today, I am ;
writing to you about a conversetion I had last week in
Paris with an official of the Royal Government of Cambodia.
He informed me that ClA-directed activities hostile to his
government are presently occurring in his country, and that
these activities are being launched from bases in Thailand.
I would greatly appreciate your assistance in finding out for
me whether any agency of the U.S. Government is presently
carrying out activities against the Royal Government of
Cambodia. .

i greatly appreciated the opportunity to talk with
you in person recently, and thank you for your interest
‘and help.

E.W.Pfeiffer

~ t Professor of Zoology
Lage Cex. 4 AN cma

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University of Montans . a
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Dear Profeseor Preivfer:

Please forgive

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in this matter, ;

It would be wost useful to neve o full stuay

of the extent and the erfects of our defoliation Lo
prograa in Southcast Asie. Perhaps you end Arthur . - |

| Meshing and others could get together to make a pro- - , :
"posal fore study of this nature. a eee oe

With best wishes,

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Memorandum : wh a/| 1/74
Tor Terry Lenzner ;

From: Jim Moore

_Subject:- Robert Maheu - John Roselli - 7

Hereis a summary of what I have done on the Roselli- Maheu .

connection,

ettetday I spoke with David Nissen: who prosecuted Roselli. in

1968 £ for being: an unregistered « alien and for being involved with hidden

owners in the Friar's s ; Clubi case. Nissen’ never ‘met Mahew or spoke with

investigating and 1 prosecuting Roselli. He couldn't remember the source
ep aa - Shiels
of those stories, saying that his information came from many people,

including Justice Department lawyers in Washington and the FBI. One
story he heard was that Maheu tried to. intervene in | Washington, either”

as: through direct. contacts } in a the FBI or at ‘Justice or. + through, Edward Po ;

. Morgan,’ to kill the: Roselli prosecution on the basis that Rosellt had helped ce

the United States in Cuba. Maheu was. reportedly # an ‘old CIA agent, . . Nissen
remembers hearing. at some. point that Roselli had gone to Cuba in an attempt .

\

to as sasinate Castro :
. Nissen said that there are extensive files: on Roselli maintained by -
the FBI oft!the Department. Nissen had a vague recollection that the files
contained a story about Maheu somehow being involved in a wiretap on Sam —
! Giancona, for whom Roselli worked, Nissen also remembered information
about a meeting between Maheu and Giancona regarding Cuba, but he couldn't

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When Roselli came up for sentencing, he was represented by Tom
Wadden, who had been associated in geome capacity with Edward Bennett
Williams. Wadden filed a motion to reduce sentence and included with vit
two col, ‘umns by Jack Anderson that recounted the story of Roselli and Maheu
trying to assasinate ‘Castro. ‘Nissen thought the motion might also have’ a of ;

foe

included an affidavit from Edward P. Morgan, “The government successfully

resisted the motion on the grounds of fraud, since Wadden produced 5 no

, . witnesses or documentation to support his claim” I called the : Federal Court

7 Roselli is now in. Florida 80 he can be reached, but, according | to

; Nissen, Giancona is in exile somewhere in Mexico.

. FROVTIER CASE

Nissen never heard about Maheu being questioned in ‘Washington in
Franti Lae
liew of the Grand Jury appearance. Nissen did d not try the/case, because he. ;

had been promoted to supervisory capacity. However, he seemed surprised

that he had never heard of such a meeting. He ae gave me the names of

three lawyers who handled the case after he gave up direct responsibility. :

for ite: My phone i interview with the first of them, Jerzy Uliman, is. ritte

up asa. separate interview: The. second Lawyery John Hornbeck, has not

a yet etarned my phone call, The third,. . ‘Tom Kotoski: jactually tried the case,

He i is now an assistant United. States | Attorney in Los Angeles and about to
become head of the San Francisco Strike Force, He will be in Washington

Thureday and. Friday, February 14 and 15, and Lhave asked him to.call me .

- as. soon as possible... .

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a file kept on Maheu himself.

; that file
One final note - Nissen said/Ahe RoseHi/in the Justice Department

contains many references to Maheu, He never, however, saw or heard about

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Sam GIANCANA
Sam Mooney, Sam Malone
Born 7-16-08, Chicago, Ille3
Sto", 175 lbs., hazel eyes,
dark chestnut hair, fair
complexion and medium build.

Resides at 1147 Wenonah Ave.

the Army Lounge, Norwood’
House, Villa Venice, all of
Chicago, Tllinois.

Wife, Angeline DeTolve, died in 195h. “Has three.
daughters, Annette, Bonita Lou and Francine.
Mother deceaséd, father is Tony Giancana, and
sisters are Mary, Josephine and Victoria. Sam's
consort is Ladana Collins, 20 E. Delaware, Chicago, ©
Tllinois.

Tony Accardo, Paul Riceo, Willie Baddone, Nicholas
D'Amico, Sam Battaglia and Leonard Gianola, ali of

‘Chicago, Illinois.

. FBI. #58437, Chicago. PD #E-2765. Subject has re-

cord of 13. arrests dating from Sept. 1925, on such

. charges as murder, grand larceny, auto theft,

burglary and liquor law violations with two felony
convictions.

Owns the Forest Lounge, the R&S Liquor Co., the
Lohmar Dist. Co., Chicago, T1l., and has gambling
interests. and an interest in the shrimp business

' in Cuba.

A top ranking member of the Mafia in the State of
Ti, and a director of the organization's activi-

tied in Ghiracn sand wi ainitw vee -

“MAME ==: Giowanni, ROSELLE

- ALIASES —_ John Roselli, John Russelli,
‘ - John Kasselle, John’ Passelli -

: DESCRIPTION 2 Born 7-0 Chicage, - ml,
. 5'8", 171 los, brown-grey
hair, blue eyese

LOCALITIES : Resides 1252 No. Crescent
_ FREQUENTED Htseg Hollywood, - Cal. Fre-
See quents gambling casinos at.~
"Las Vegas where he has room
at Tropicana Hotel. Travels
frequently all parts U.S.

‘FAMILY =: Divorced from: nove actress June’ Lang; fathers”
. BACKGROUND . Vincenzo; mothers Maria Russo (both, deceased);
oo oo cousins Joseph Evangelistae a

- CRIMINAL: ©: Dragna family, Philip Kastel, Harold Keltzery
ASSOCIATES. Francisco Costiglia, Charles Fischetti, Louis -
Piscopo,

CRIMINAL - FBI #3339986. L.A. Sheriff's Office #512h7«
HISTORY. Record dating from 1926 includes arrests for
; suspicion of robbery, vagrancy, interfering with |
trade, mail fraud & violation of paroles

"BUSINESS 2 Vice-President Monte Prosser Productions: and
, a _ varied other interestse a

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_ MODUS ‘3° A top Mafia figure at Los Angeles and. Las ‘Vegas.
. -OPERANDI . Active in labor racketeering and control of ganb=

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BAS 2, ERVIN, IR, 90, CHAIRMAM
. HOWARD M. BAKER, JR. TENN. VICE CHAIRMAN
HEMMAN ©. TALMADGE, GA, EDWARD J. GURNEY, PLA,

DAME &.  MONTOT AS a wemae, LOWELL P, WEICKER, JM. COMM, ;
einer couse anh Sey ounecton — Mlnited Glates Denat
Kanontry counsen : SELECT COMMITTEE ON - :
RUPUS L, EDMISTEN . PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN ACTIVITIES
DEPUTY COUNT mo. (pursuanr vo s, ars. , 8D CONGRESS). - 3 7
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“1. MEMORANDUM | are °
_ PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL. . ;
Tos. rz ; / Senator Ervin. a re

From: _ Terry Lenzner and Marc Lackritz

Subject: Relevance to S. Res. 60 of John Rosselli's 2-.c4 of het
. testimony about his CIA activities -- Stepp SEDs 7

Vow TR US BT Tete? ot tet 7

Summary: Dobe tay
John Rosselli and his attomey, Tom Wadden, object to .
testifying about. Rosselli's involvement with Robert Maheu in air try 8
CIA~financed plot to assassinate Fidel Castro in the early 1960's ce >
The objection is based upon national security grounds as well as

an assertion by Mr. Wadden that the material is not relevant to

our inquiry under §. Res. 60. ,

7 Testimony of Mr. Rosselli about this matter is relevant
and necessary to our investigation for a variety of reasons.

Facts; -

_" During the last year of the Eisenhower Administration, the.
CIA apparently financed and organized a plot to assassinate Fidel ~
Castro. ‘Among the participants in this Plot were Robert Maheu and .
John Rosselli. -Maheu had a public relations business at the time,...
and Rosselli was associated with some alleged organized crime
figures (e.g. Sam Giancana) who had lost substantial gambling -
investments when Castro came to Power. Apparently, the plot .
continued into the early 1960's even after the abortive Bay of Pigs
invasion, but it failed in attaining its objective of killing Castro,

Only a few officials in the government knew of the exis-
‘ tence of the plot at that time. . : a

Justice Department officials stumbled across this infor~
mation about the plot as a result of their investigation into an
illegal wiretap by Sam Giancana in the early 1960's.

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The sensitive information was brought to the attention of
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, and either he or then-Attomey General
Robert Kennedy ordered the prosecution of Giancana dropped. in order
not tb compromise national security considerations. -

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amin the” ‘information’ about ‘the alleged assassination plot. “then

lay dormant in a secret file in the Department of Justice until early
1969; when Assistant Attorney General Will Wilson requested the

file from the Deputy Chief of the Organized Crime Section. The file ©...
was returned to Central Files. Shortly | after it was. : taken out.

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“Assistant Attorney ‘General Wilson next requested the secret
Justice file in early 1971 in connection with his interview of Robert :
Maheu on January 27, 1971 (see attached chronology). This interview

at the Department of Justice, in lieu of a grand jury appearance, was
arranged by a telephone call to Attorney General Mitchell on January 19,
1971, only one day after Jack Anderson published his first column linking
both Mahéu and Rosselli to the CIA plot t to > kill Castro... (see attached)

“However, the significance of Anderson' s column on January 18,
1971, was that on the same day, Haldeman requested Dean.to find out-:
what he could about the Hughes - Maheu - o' Brien relationship. ele

In the follow-up memos from Caulfield to Dean on the Maheu-
O'Brien link, Caulfield notes Maheu's prior "covert activities" for the
CIA and advises Dean that a check into CIA, FBI, and IRS files on Robert
Maheu is advisable to avoid a "“counter-scandal."

In addition, Assistant Attorney General Wilson showed the

' sensitive "Castro file” to. Attorney General Mitchell, in January, 1971,

and discussed with him the political implications of the information.
Following the on-the-record interview of Maheu on January 27, 1971,
by Lynch, Wilson and Petersen, Maheu was interviewed privately by
Wilson concerning his prior CIA activities with John Rosselli.. Maheu
was not forthcoming with information about the plot at that time.
Attorney General Mitchell discussed the contents of the sensitive file
with President Nixon, according to Wilson, who had advised him to do
so. oo ,

~ Conclusion:

Therefore, the obsession of the Administration in keeping tabs
on Larry O'Brien in 1971 and 1972 was in part motivated by a fear that
Maheu would impart some of this sensitive information about the plot

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any information about the plot that might be daniaging to the Democrats
that O'Brien might possess from Maheu. And these concerns could
have been a possible motivation for the break-in to the offices of the
DNC and Larry O'Brien by four Cuban-Americans on June 17, 1972, | os
especially since their directions were to photograph any documents *’? :
relating to Cuban contributions or Cuban involvement in the 1972 ~~

Democratic campaign. ; eee, ee

It is for these reasons that we wish to question John Rosselli" “"'
_ about the nature and scope of his activities. _with Robert Maheu inthe |

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Thanksgiving, 1970 Hughes leaves Las Vegas.
December 4, 1970 Maheu is fired. —
January 18, ‘1971 oe t - : _ Jack Anderson columa published linktag Ma!

oo, Gtk &., and Rosselli to plot to kill. Castro.
January 18, 7l , : *. 2 or Haldeman sends memo to Dean requesting ih
— won Pl mation on o Brien~Maheu~ ~Hughes relations}
i ft eolarhosonlt ve. i :
January 19. 1971. oe Jack "Andérson’ ‘column’ appears with more det
on Maheu's fnvolvement in plot to assassin:
° ~ Castro. = > ;

January 19, 1971 pas Attomey General John Mitchell called Robert
/ a Maheu_ in Las Vegas at 5:12 P. m. and talked

January 25, 197142

~ relationship with Maheu, O'Brien relationsh:
© with. Maheu, and request for investigation ir
; ‘CIA, FBI, IRS files for information: to avoid @

, January 25, 1971 “

Sohn Rosselli enters) prison.

January 26, 1971 ° oo . Dean to Haldeman 1 memo on Maheu-O' Brien-
; Hughes relationship

' -Maheu interviewed at Department of Justice }
__ A.A.G. Will Wilson,..Henry Petersen and Bill
__ Lynch, in Heu of an appearance before the
., Grand Jury. Interview is about "skimming "ih
‘ Las Vegas + mae : oo,

January 27, 1971 a _ _— - A.A .G. Wilson and Petersen meet with Maher
Ploy _ wot, privately to discuss, Maheu! s Prior. CIA activi

February 1,19717 =) we _— Caulfield 1 to Dean 1 memo > noting that Maheu wz
Sek rie: , _ involved in "covert activities" for the CIA in
early 1960's.

February 12, 1971 : . to, Rosselli*s attorney files a Motion to Reduce
iL ; . ; oo: Sentence based on Rosselli's prior CIA activi:
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA
‘COUNTY OF

7 am the.

in the above entitled action: I have read the foregoing

and know the contents thereof: and | certify that the same is true of my own knowledge, except as to those matters which

are therein stated upon my information or belief, and as to those matters 1 believe it to be true.

1 certify (or declare), under penalty of perjury,” that the foregoing is true and correct.

Executed on

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I am a citizen of the United States and a resident of the county aforesaid; | am ever the age of eighteen years and not
a party to the within entitled action; my business address is:

STATE OF CALIFORNIA .
county or Los Angeles

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9601 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 400, Beverly Hills, California 90210

I served the within_ Notice of Motion For Reduction

of Sentence (Rule 35 FRCP); Points and Authorities; Affidavits in
Support Thereof | .

on the Plaintiff "
in said action, by placing a true copy thereof enclosed in a sealed envelope with postage thereon fully prepaid, in the
United States mail ac___ beverly Hills, California
adaressed as follows:
DAVID R. NISSEN
Assistant U.S. Attorney
Chief, Criminal Division
1200 U.S. Courthouse
312 North Spring St.
Los Angeles, Calif. 90012

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LOS ANCCLES COUNTY

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| “/2 || DAVID R. NISSEN
yr Assistant U. S. Attorney
’ 3 | Chief, Criminal Division
1200 U. §. Courthouse Building
4 312 North Spring Street
Los Angeles, California 90012
5 Tel: 688-2406
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United States of America.
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Plaintiff, United States of America, strongly opposes
defendant's Motion to Reduce Sentence based upon the files and _
records in the case and the attached Menorandwa 2 08 “

Respectfully submitted,

ROBERT L. MEYER . .
United States Attorney . .

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DAVID R. NISSEN

Assistant United States Attorney
Chief, Criminal Division

Attorneys for Plaintiff,
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John Rosselli is actually Filippo Sacco, born July 4, 1905, -

in Italy of parents Vincenzo and Maria Saceo. Vincenzo Sacco

came to the United States after the birth of Filippo, his oldest |

child, and in 1911, Mrs. Sacco and Filippo joined Vincenzo in
the United States where they resided as aliens in East Boston.
Filippo Sacco completed the sixth grade in the public

schools of East Boston and was discharged from school in 1917. _
By this time Filippo had two younger brothers and. two younger - |

sisters. In 1918, Vincenzo Sacco died. His wife Maria and the
five children moved into the residence | of Liberato Cianciulli —

and a daughter was born in 1920. In 1922, Maria and Cianciulli =

were married.
In 1922, Filippo had a job sett a horse-drawn milk.

wagon and was nicknamed "Milky". However, in addition to his

legitimate occupation, Filippo had made connections with the

criminal element in East Boston and was engaged inrarcotic

traffic with his headquarters in and around Maverick Square.

On September 14, 1922, Filippo sold morphine to a government
informant named Fisher while under surveillance by a narcotic
agent. On September 19, 1922, Filippo arranged for a large |
sale from his "source" and was present and under agent sur-
veillance when the morphine was delivered, On September 23,
1922, Filippo Sacco and his "source" were arrested by Federal
narcotics agents. On October 18, 1922, the Federal Grand Jury
in Boston indicted Sacco for the sale of narcotic drugs and
two days later he was released on bail, While awaiting trial
in the narcotics case, in Federal Court, Sacco was arrested and
indicted in Massachusetts State Court for grand larceny and

was released on bail on July 2, 1923.

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In 1923, while he was on bail awaiting trial in the
narcotics and larceny cases, Filippo Sacco jumped bail in both

cases and disappeared from East Boston. The Government narcotics

informant, Fisher, disappeared about the same time and Government

sources believe that he may have been killed to prevent him from
testifying. Because of his fugitive status, both indictments

against Sacco. were ‘dropped.

oo After Sacco" s flight from his home in 1 1923, he ‘Spent some. ers
time in New York and Chicago, and finally made his appearance a

Los” Angeles in 1924 under the fictitious name "John Roselli.”
Sources indicate that Sacco engaged in bootlegging and hijacking
during this period and police records show he was frequently

arrested. on such charges as carrying concealed weapons, and suse. ||.

picion of robbery. .
After 1930, Sacco became associated with. the AL Capone

gang in Chicago and was also closely associated with organized |

crime in Los Angeles. Reliable sources relate that he was an

executioner ‘for the criminal organizations in both cities, In
1936, by demands and. threats, Sacco forced his‘ way into part oa
ownership of "Nationwide News Service," a horseracing information

service used by bookmakers across the country. .

After prohibition was repealed, Sacco left the bootlegging
business and associated himself with Columbia Pieture Studios.
As a close friend of Los Angeles underworld leader Jack Dragna,

Sacco soon became known as a labor muse leman and racketeer for —

the movie studios. In 1943, Sacco was indicted on a charge of

conspiracy to extort millions of dollars from movie producers
and a labor union. Also indicted were union cfficials Browne |
and Biof£, and the following ranking members of the Chicago La
Cosa Nostra family: Frank Nitto (aka Nitti), Louis Campagna,
Paul DeLucia (aka Paul "the waiter" Ricia), Phil D'Andrea,

Francis Manitote (aka Frank Diamond), and Charles “Cherry Nose"

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Gioe. In 1944, Sacco and the Chicago defendants were convicted

and all were sentenced to ten years in prison.

In 1947, Sacco and all his co-defendants were paroled

immediately upon their becoming eligible therefor. There were
indications that their release had been secured by bribery but

: admissible evidence sufficient. for prosecution | was not obtained.

In Jaly 1948, Sacco's parole was revoked because of his con-

tinued association with known criminals and he was. imprisoned

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until Rovenber 1948, when his parole © was reinstated. ‘Shortly
key Goverment witness at ‘the extortion trial was, | mardered by ©
| the bombing of his vehicle. (The trial judge ‘reportedly had
. warned the defendants that if anything happened to Bioff while
they were on parole he would hold them responsible.) Two other
co-defendants of Sacco have also been victims of gang slayings. ~
Upon ‘his. release. from prison, Sacco returned to Los Angeles
and again associated himself with a movie studio. Reliable
sources report that this was a front and in fact, through his
close association with Sam Giancana of Chicago, Sacco received oe
‘the responsibility of overseeing the concealed interests. in .
Las Vegas casinos of the Chicago underworld. Sacco iomediately
became a powerful figure in Las Vegas. He ‘travels back and
forth between Las Vegas and Los Angeles: extensively and asso- 7
ciates with the kmown Cosa Nostra members and major gamblers.
Rosselli appeared before the Kefauver Committee investi-

gating organized erime and falsely testified concerning his

association with underworld figures and even his own personal
background.
During the period 1956- 1958, Sacco was very active in

the construction and pre-opening operation of the Tropicana Hotel,

and Sacco received the lease to operate the gift shop. The

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an alien and report his address annually.

trial, it was shown that birth records in Chicago, ‘Tilinois, had ;

born there as John Rosselli.
of Edward J. Barrett, County Clerk, Cook County, Illinois, in

Nevada Gaming Control Board refused to allow the Tropicana to
open as long as Sacco was associated with its. operation, where- -. |
upon the hotel owners were forced to buy back the gift shop lease ~

at a cost of $180,000, reportedly about thirty times the amount .

During the above period, Sacco also involved bimsel£ in the .
| Production, of shows for the Tropicana, but again the Gaming |

‘Following his. ouster ‘from ‘the - .
Tropicana, Sacco sold tee machines to most of the Las Mott |
| at prices far in excess of prices on the open market. .
also received numerous "£inders fees" from various Las Vegas .
hotels and casinos for which few if any: services were Segoe
In October 1960, Sacco and T. W. Richardson. were involved.
in placing a wire tap on the telephone of comedian Dan Rowan in
‘Las Vegas at the request of Chicago gangster Sam. Giancana..

In May 1968, Sacco was convicted of failing to register as

‘béen forged in an effort to make it. appear that Sacco chad been

In the course of that 7

Sacco has long been | a close friend

whose office the birth records for Chicago were kept.
Among Sacco's underworld associates are the following:
Al Capone - head of the Chicago underworld gangs

Charles F,. Fischetti ~ a Capone lieutenant; ~

Micky Cohen - gambler and racketeer;

“now deceased;

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Jack Dragna - leader of the Cosa Nostra, Los ‘Angeles,

Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel - member of £ Murder, Tne.

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against. him, and a number of witnesses have refused to ‘testify.

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. witnesses deliberately perjured themselves in order to exonerate...

Allen Smiley - gambler, bookmaker, racketeer;
Tony Accardo - ranking Cosa Nostra figure;

_ Momo Adams - ranking Cosa Nostra figure; and >
Frank Costello - ranking Cosa Nostra figure. .

"Numerous prospective witnesses in the course of investiga-

tions concerning Sacco's criminal activities ‘have expressed or

In the Friars ‘Club trial, it was apparent that a umber of

Sacco, including Friedman, Vinnie Donato, Lee Deer, and Nat Ross.

‘Defendant Sacco was convicted in the Friars Club case in |
December 1968" of interstate travel in aid of a racketeering,
enterprise and interstate transportation of fraudulently obtained
securities. He was also convicted of making a false statement in -

his income tax return. Sacco has had a long practice of concealing.

the source and nature of his income. He was sentenced to five years

in prison,

In view of Sacco" S “extensive ‘criminal record 1 extending t back
more than’: 40 years, as well as his membership and participation
in the organized criminal syndicate known as Cosa Nostra, we
strongly urge that defendant Sacco’ 's sentence not be teduced for.
any reason whatsoever. He is a genuine menace to society and,

in particular, to those witnesses who have testified against him.

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oa CERTIFICATE. OF SERVICE BY MAIL

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Lf JUNE S$ TOKUYAMA ? declare:
Sf

4 That I am a citizen of the United states and resident or em-

ployed in Los Angeles County, California; that: my business address: is - 7
Office of United States Attorney, United States courthouse, +312 North
Spring. street, Los Angeles, California 90012; that rt am over the age -

of, eighteen years, “and am not a party to the above-entitled action; ~

‘That I am employed by the United States attorney for ‘the cone,

tral. District. of - california who. is a member - of the Bar of ‘the: United

States District ‘court for the central District of. California, at nose

direction the service by math des eribed ‘in this certificate was made; as a eee

that on - February 17, 1971 » I deposited in the United -
States mails in the united States Courthouse at 312 North spring St., --
Los Angeles, California, in the above-entitled action, in an envelope»
bearing the requisite postage, a copy of

- GOVERNMENT'S OPPOSITION TO DEFENDANT'S MOTION
TO REDUCE SENTENCE -

addressed to _ Adrian Marshall, “Esq. a
Attorney at Law.

9601 Wilshire Bivd., Suite 400
Beverly Hills, California 90210

at his last known address, at which place there is a delivery ser-
vice by United States mail. -
This Certificate is executed on ‘February 17, 1971 ws

at Los Angeles, California.
I certify under penalty of " perjury ‘that the foregoing | is true
and. correct. Coe _
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_ discussed with Roselli the Maheu Cuban matter with which we were concerned; and.

‘view Rosell{ about his

_., any problems. | Maheu responded, that he v8.0

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To : Terry Lenzner

From 3 Bob Muse

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Subject: Interview of John Roselli

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° On Wednesday February 20, 1974, Scott Armstrong, Mare Lackritz and Bob.

888 17th Street, N. W., Washington, D. C., telephone 833-1440. Also present were
Wadden's associates Bryan B. McMenamin and Leslie Scherr. Se weg

Muse interviewed John Roselli at the office of Roselli's attorney, Tom Wadden, © -_ -

a

Wadden began the interview by noting that for. the first ‘tine,, he had

found that it ‘presented a great problem of national security. Accordingly he had ,
tried to reach Senator Ervin, an old acquaintance, and see if he could persuade the
Senator from allowing this interview to go forward. He did not get in touch with

Ervin directly but talked to 4 ‘staff member in Ervin's office, whom he would not .
identify. He further noted that, Roselli was insistent upon not giving any informatior

=" shout hig Cuban activities and would rather go to jail than be compelled to testify |

about the matter. Thus the interview was not’productive insofar as Roselli's
involvement with Maheu in 3960 ;was, concerned. “However Wadden did allow us to inter-
‘background and we reserved the right ‘to-have an executive: =,
session before a Senator where John Roselli might be compelled to testify. about his |
{nvolvement, with Maheu' in Cuba. (It should be noted that Wadden would not identify.

his privilege claim other than Saying it related to national security.)-,

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_ and Mrs. Joseph Daigle at 522 Southwest Temp Corner,, Plantation, Florida 33314. His

telephone number there is area.305 581-6585.. He has been living in retirement with

- them since he left jail at the end of last summer. Prior to moving to Florida he

had been in the federal prison for thirty-three months, having been convicted in the
Friar's Club case, a conspiracy in which he was charged along with Maurice Friedman,
Benjamin Teitlebaum, and Mamuel Jacobs. (He noted that Hank Greenspun had no involve-
ment either as a co-defendant or unindicted co-conspirator in that case.)

With regard to Bob Maheu, he met Maheu for the first time in the mid-50's
in either Washington or, California through a, mutual acquaintance, Herman Spitzel.

When questions were asked as to what his subsequent involvement with Maheu was,
ground of 7

Roselli's attorney instructed him not to answer any questions on the
national security. °° 6 2 Bat eo Sa

_ Roselli. did however indicate how he and Maheu had made arrangements for ~
Hughes to live at the Desert Inn when Hughes first arrived there in late 1966. He
said that he had received @ call from Maheu, who needed to make arrangements for
Hughes to move to Las Vegas from Boston. According to Maheu, no one wanted to give
Hughes any rooms. Roselli at the request of Maheu left his residence in Los Angeles
and went up to Las Vegas and asked his acquaintance Ruby Kolod, who owned 13% of
the Desert Inn, to accommodate Hughes and allow him to take two of the penthouses-
at the Desert Inn. At the time Maheu was in charge of security and responsible for
seeing that Hughes arrived unnoticed in Las Vegas. Kolod acquiesced and told _
Roselli that the top floor of the Desert Inn would be ‘available at the going rate,
but that they would have to leave the hotel by New Years. When the New Years date |
was approaching, Maheu called and said that they had. received notice from Kolod and

“were suppose to leave their premises. Roselli then convinced Kolod to ellow them

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to stay. At the same time he told Maheu that Hughes should buy the Hotels and
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want to get involved in any of the gambling businesses and would not therefore want
to purchase the hotel. It was at this point that Roselli conceived of the idea of
trying to sell the hotel, and approached Kolod and asked 4f he would be willing to
sell it. Kolod@ replied that if Roselli could make arrangements to sell it he would
receive a finder's fee. Roselli then turned around and-asked Maheu if he wanted to
purchase it. Maheu responded that he would and Roselli turned the matter over to
his attorney Ed Morgam who then handled the matter until the end. Roselli also
instigated some talk about the possibility of purchasing the Sands and, while he did
‘not negotiate it, received at a later date from Hd Morgan 4 check for $95,000 which -
represented his finder's fee for the sale of both the Desert Inn and the Sands. -.

Roselli noted that while Moe Delitz was the owner of the Desert Inn, he.”
did not negotiate with him because he found him less agreeable than Kolod. He said
that he had some minor dealings. with Dalitz but none of. them related to matters =
concerning the Las Vegas hotel industry. . we ee

With regard to Ed Morgan, Roselli met him in the ‘middle 50's. Since that
time Morgan has represented him in different Las Vegas interests. He noted that
Morgan did not represent him in his Friars’ Club defense(but-—did_arrange—for—fia
Cantillion, a Los Angeles attorney handid’ the matter). He said that he had no
trouble with Morgan's handling of the Desert Inn finder's fee, since he trusted
Morgan implicity. He noted that Morgan had arranged for John Roselli to be represent

by Tom Wadden, his present attorney. This representation first began on the appeal
from the Friar's Club. rs
Roselli indicated’ that his only present interest in Las Vegas concerns. —
his holdings in the gift shop at the Frontier hotel. His involvement there started
. in 1967 when he had an arrangement with Mr. Friedman. This set-up did not work out
i and Roselli resigned as President of the gift shop. Thereafter he made an arrange=-
ment with a Mr. Breen whereby he would furnish Breen with money and indemnify hin
ca against any losses if Breen would run the gift shop. This arrangement has worked
; out fairly well and he continues to receive his share of the profits each year from
the gift shop. He mentioned that it was his opinion that Breen had been poorly
treated by the Hughes enterprises, since Hughes first purchased the Frontier. He
_ recalls, at his last meeting with Maheu, asking Maheu to lend Breen $60,000 for the
4 | gift shop. Maheu' said he would get back to him but never did. Ultimately a loan
was arranged through Perry Thomas at.the Valley Bank of Nevada.

Since 1967 Roselli has seen Maheu only once. And while he does not recall
the date of that meeting he remembers that it was in Los Angeles before Maheu had
terminated with Hughes. He recalls that Meheu was in Los Angeles at the time while
: his wife was having a foot operation, and that he called Roselli to have supper.

é Roselli has no recollection of the conversation that the two had at supper other
than that they discussed, as noted above, the possibility of arranging a loan for

Breen at the Frontier Hotel Gift Shop.

He said he has known Peter Maheu since the middle 1950's and that he went
to Peter's wedding reception. His only involvement with Peter occurred whenever
Robert Maheu wanted a message conveyed to Roselli. He recalls no qubsequent substastiw
discussions with Peter Maheu. ,

He indicated he knew nothing about larry O'Brien, Tony Hatsis, ‘or Jack
| ’ Cleveland. Similarly, he has no recollection of ever having met Bebe Rebozo, and
knows of the person only through newspaper articles.

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Los Angeles, he remenbers being represented by James Cantillon a ‘Los Angeles attorney
He remembers that this grand jury was convened sometime in the summer of 1970 and
that his appearance took place before he went to jail, which was Jamary 25, 1971.
He has no recollection of Tavid Nissen, the prosecutor,ever having made a comment
about Maheuj nor did he question Roselli about his recollection of his involvement
with Maheu in the Cuban undertaking. Roselli had very bad words about Nissen and
mentioned that Nissen had once filed with Judge Gray an unsigned and undated state-
ment discussing Roselli!s background » which Roselli ; and Wadden both said was very
inaccurate. | .

-:"Roselld has i ‘recollection of being asked to be an informer by Nissen. :

Hedoes remember, however, being approached by two FBI agents in 1966 about the ~

‘Possibility of being an informer. This. possibility: is discussed in the court files.

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a Rosell ‘recalls, ‘appearing four ‘or five ‘times: before the Frontier Hotel”

grand jury. “He answered questions: extensively only_ on the first day and thereafter |

appeared at the “request, of | Nissen. and waited_ “around. ' ' Wadden indicated that we should

make @ “request of Judge ‘Byrne’ ‘or. whoever else “might have access to those grand jury -

° ” minutes ‘to get Roselli's testimony about ‘the Frontier. Roselli does not recall

“having talked to Bob Maheu about his appearance before the grand jury. He said he

: had no recollection of Maheu appearing there but, after being advised by Wadden

a that. Maheu' 8 eppearance was s well noted | An the > Paper, he said he may have read about

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. . “He” said he has no ‘fecollection « or - knowledge ‘of Bob Maheu ever making an
“spplicatio on Roselli's ‘behalf for reduction of sentence.

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oe 7 * “with “regard. ‘to political contributions, ? “he has never had any discussions
with Rebozo, or had any conversations with anyone about any contributions (of over
$10, 000) to a Presidential campaign. He has no recollection of the Teamsters making
any substantial contributions to the Presidential Campaign. Similarly he has no
knowledge of ferry Thomas making any contribution. ,

Rosselli has no recollection of ever discussing with Maheu any of
Maheu's problems or contacts with the Administration. Specifically, he dees ~
i>” pot recall Maheu ever talking about ‘Stans or. "any involvements Stans may have
had, Witt Thomas or Greenspun.” eto gh at,

; oe _ "he knew nothing about ‘oy use of stolen stocks.

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with regard “bo Jim Crosby, Jack ‘avis’ and Mary Carter Paoint Co. he
knew nothing. Bint larly. he knew nothing sbout sam, Golden.

He had no "Knowledge of Bob’ Peliguin ‘or Intertel's involvement at
"paradise Island. Wadden chimed in by noting that he had been an old assaclate
“of Hundley and had gone to Paradise Island with Hundley 8 about 7 years ago to

look at the Paradise Island ‘set-up.

ay Rosell has never talked with or met Jack Caulfield. Nor does he
_— “ pecall’ ever having any private individuals interview him while he was in jail.
2°" He recalls however, that three officers from the Immigration Department once vis-
- 3° dted him’and told him about the detainer that was being held on hin. Similarly,
while he was in jail, the IRS interviewed him in Los Angeles about the finder's
fee he received in the Frontier Hotel. ‘The investigation may have related somewhat
_.. to Maheu, but, since it wag so short, he does pot recall what the discussion
-;, about Mahen concerned. He noted that no one has, ever asked him about Danner,
_Reboz0_ or F any members of the Administration. . aera


With regard to Hank Greenspun, Rosell{ has known him since the 50's.
The ‘last time he met Greenspun was when he ran into Greenspun in Los Angeles shortly
after he got out of prison, at which time they talked a few mimites. No questions
were asked and there was no discussion with Greenspun about his involvement with
Maheu. He noted that Greenspun | has never questioned him about any matters.

He noted that “he has never met Gordon Liddy, Hovara Hunt or any of the
Cuban Americans who wére involved in the Watergate break-in. He said however that
he has been Liddy once, and that was at Terminal Island when he was acting as a
prison librarian. There were no discussions with Liddy. He is fairly certain he
has never met Hunt with regard to any CIA involvement of his own. He also noted
that he has never had any property | or business dealings in Cuba. ee

The interview concluded with the serving of a subpoena upon Mr. Roselli
and the decision to hold a further meeting under oath at : a Jjater date.

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Muse interviewed John Roselli at the office of Roselli's attorney, Tom Wedden, ak -
888 17th Street, N. W., Washington, D. C., telephone 833-1440. Also present were:

Wadden's associates Bryan f B. McMenamin and leslie Scherr. : Ste “es

Cn, * Yadaen began the “interview by noting “that: for. the Pirst. ‘time, he. had
; discussed with Roselli the Maheu Cuban matter with which we were concerned; and
found that it presented a great. problem of national security. Accordingly he_ had”
tried to reach Senator Ervin, an old acquaintance, and see if he could persuade. the
Senator from ‘allowing this interview. to go forward. He did not get in touch with
Ervin directly but talked, to ‘a ‘state. ‘member in Ervin's office, whom he would not
_ identify. He further’ noted that, Roselli was insistent upon not giving any informatior
about his Cuban activities and “would” rather go to jail than be compelled to testify
about the matter. Thus the interview. “was “not? “productive insofar_ags Roselli's
involvement with Maheu in 3960 | was, ‘concerned, However, Wadden ‘aid allow us to inter
‘yiew Roselli about his ‘background _ and” ‘we’ “reserved, the right to. “have. an ‘executive. :
session before a Senator | where, John. Roselli might ‘be “compelled ‘to ‘testify. about pis”
involvement, with Meheu in Cuba.” (It should be noted that Wadden would’ not identify :
his privilege . clain other than Saying it related to national” security. )_”

John Roselli ‘presently, resides with his sister and brother-in-law, a Mre -
and Mrs, Joseph’ Daigle at 522. Southwest" Temp. Corner; Plantation, ° Florida 33314. His
- telephone number there is area. 305 581-6585. He has been living in retirement with
_them since he left jail at the end of last summer. Prior to moving to Florida he |
had been in the federal prison for thirty-three months, having been convicted in the
Friar's Club case, a conspiracy in which he was charged along with Maurice Friedman,
Benjamin Teitlebaum, and Manuel Jacobs. (He noted that Hank Greenspun had no involve-

_ nent either as a co-defendant or unindicted co-conspirator in that case.)

7 any problems «|

With regard” to Bob Maheu, he met Maheu for. the ‘first time in the mid-50's
in either Washington or California through | a. ‘mutual acquaintance, Herman Spitzel.
When questions were asked as to what his subsequent involvement. with Maheu was,
Roselli's attorney instructed, him not to answe any questions on the. ground of.
national security. ” : oe . - ;

a “Roselli aid however indicate how. he and Maheu ‘had made arrangements for
' Hughes to live at the Desert Inn when Hughes. first. ‘arrived there in late 1966. He
said that he had received a call from Maheu, who ‘needed to make arrangements for
Hughes to move to Las Vegas from Boston. According to Maheu, no one wanted to give
Hughes any rooms. Roselli at the request of Maheu left his residence in Los Angeles
-and went up to Las Vegas and asked his acquaintance Ruby Kolod, who owned 13% of |
the Desert Inn, to accommodate Hughes and allow him to take two of the. penthouses-
at the Desert Inn. At the time Maheu was in charge of security and responsible for
seeing that Hughes arrived unnoticed in Las Vegas. Kolod acquiesced and told”
Roselli that the top floor of the Desert Inn would be ‘available at the “going rate,
put that they would have te leave the hotel by. New Years. When the New Years date
was approaching, Maheu called and said that they had received notice from Kolod and
“were suppose to leave their premises. Roselli then convinced Kolod to allow then .
to stay. At the same time he told Maheu that Hughes should buy the Hotels | and‘
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want to get involved in any. of the gambling businesses and would not therefore want
to purchase the hotel. It was at this point that Roselli conceived of the idea of
; trying to sell the hotel, and approached Kolod and asked if he would be willing to
{ sell it. Kolod replied that if Roselli could make arrangements to sell it he would
receive a finder's fee. Roselli then turned around and-asked Maheu if he wanted to -
purchase it. Maheu responded that he would and Roselli”“turned the matter over to
his attorney Ed Morgam who then handled the matter until the end. Roselli also
instigated some talk about the possibility of purchasing the Sands and, while he did
‘not negotiate it, received at a later date from %d Morgan a check for $95,000 which .
represented his finder's fee for the sale of both the Desert Inn and the Sands. ._.

Roselli noted that while Moe Dalitz was the owner of the Desert Inn, he’.
did not negotiate with him because he found him less agreeable than Kolod. He said
that he had some minor dealings with Dalitz but none of them related to matters ——
concerning the las Vegas hotel industry. CO te i

With regard to Ed Morgan, Roselli met him in the middle 50's. Since that
time Morgan has represented him in different Las Vegas interests. He noted that

_ Morgan did not represent him in his Friars’ Club defense(but—did_arrange—forJim

: Cantillion, a Los Angeles attorney tj handld' the matter). He said that he had no
trouble with Morgan's handling of the Desert Inn finder's fee, since he trusted
Morgan. implicity. He noted that Morgan had arranged for John Roselli to be represent
by Tom Wadden, his present attorney. This representation first began on the appeal —
from the Friar's Club. ms ,

Roselli indicated’ that his only present interest in Las Vegas concerns. .
his boldings in the gift shop at the Frontier hotel. His involvement there started
in 1967 when he had an arrangement with Mr. Friedman. This set-up did not work out
and Roselli resigned as President of the gift shop. Thereafter he mde an arrange-
‘ment with a Mr. Breen whereby he would furnish Breen with money and indemnify hin
7 against any losses if Breen would run the gift shop. This arrangement has worked |
out fairly well and he continues to receive his share of the profits each year from
the gift shop. He mentioned that it was his opinion that Breen had been poorly
treated by the Hughes enterprises, since Hughes first purchased the Frontier. He
. recalls, at his last meeting with Maheu, asking Maheu to lend Breen $60,000 for the
4 gift shop. Msheuw said he would get back to him but never did. Ultimately a loan
was arranged through Perry Thomas at the Valley Bank of Nevada. ,

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. Since 1967 Roselli has’ seen Maheu only once. And while he does not recall
the date of that meeting he remembers that it was in Los Angeles before Maheu had
-terminated with Hughes. He recalls that Meheu was in Los Angeles at the time while
his wife was having a foot operation, and that he called Roselli to have supper.
Roselli has no recollection of the conversation that the two had at supper other
than that they discussed, as noted above, the possibility of arranging a loan for
Breen at the Frontier Hotel Gift Shop.

_ He said he has known Peter Maheu since the middle 1950's and that he went
to Peter's wedding reception. His only involvement with Peter occurred whenever
Robert Maheu wanted a message conveyed to Roselli. He recalls no euhsequent $/b sf w
discussions with Peter Maheu. :

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He indicated he knew nothing about Larry O'Brien, Tony Hatsis, or Jack
| Cleveland, Similarly.he has no recollection of ever having met Bebe Rebozo, and
knows of the person only through newspaper articles.

With regard to his appearance before the Frontier Hotel grand jury in

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Los Angeles, he renenbers being represented by James Cantillon a Los Angeles attorney
He remembers that this grand jury was convened sometime in the summer of 1970 and
that his appearance took place before he went to jail, which was Jamary 25, 1971. =

- He hag no recollection of Tavid Nissen, the prosecutor,ever having made a comment ,
about Maheu; nor did he question Roselli about his recollection of his involvement
with Maheu in the Cuban undertaking. Roselli had very bad words about Nissen and
mentioned that Nissen hhad once filed with Judge Gray an unsigned and undated state-
“ment discussing Roselli's background, which Roselli > and Wadden both said was very '
inaccurate.’

Roselli has no recollection of being asked to be an informer by Nissen. 7 :
Hedoes” remenber, however, being approached by two FBI agents in 1966 about the _
‘Possibility of being. an informe This ‘Possibility is discussed in the court files.

“ Roselli recalls appearing Pour ‘or five ‘times before the Frontier Hotel”
- grand jury.” “He answered questions, extensively only_ on the first day and thereafter ‘
7 appeared " at the’ “request. of. Nissen. and waited_ ‘around. | | Wadden indicated that we should
“ make a “request of Judge. Byrne. or “whoever | else “might have access to those grand jury
“ minutes ‘to get Roselli's” testimony about the Frontier. Roselli does not recall
having talked to Bob Maheu about his appearance before the grand jury. He said he
> . had no recollection ‘of Maheu appearing there but, after being advised by Wadden
L that, Maheu" 8 appearance was swell noted An the > paper, he said he may have read about

ie ‘He said he has no recollection or Knowledge | of Bob Maheu ever ‘making an.
“applicat on on Roselli! 8 - behalf for’ Feduction of sentence. ;

“With Tegard. “to 5 politizel ‘contributions, 3 “he has never had any discussions.
“with Rebozo, or had any conversations with anyone about any contributions (of over
$10, 000) to a Presidential campaign. He has no recollection of the Teamsters making
any substantial contributions to the Presidential Campaign. Similarly he has no

. knowledge of ferry Thomas making any contribution. ,

; Rosselli has no recollection of ever discussing with Maheu any of
* Maheu' s problems or contacts with the Administration. Specifically, he does
pot. recall Maheu ever talking. about, Stans or any involvements Stans may have
“hed wi Th ma.8 | or Greenspun." vad,

With regard to Jim Crosby, ‘Jack ‘Davis and “Mary carter Paoint: Co. he
knew nothing. Similarly . he knew nothing. about in Golden.

0 He had no ‘enowledge of Bob Peliguin ‘or - Intertel's involvement at
“Paradise Island. Wadden chimed in by noting that he had been an old associate
“of Hundley and had ‘gone to Paradise Island with Hundley about 7 years ago to
look at t the Paradise Island set-up.

ro , ‘Rosell has never talked with or met Jack Caulfield.. Nor does he
ae “pecall’ ever having any private individuals interview him while he was in jail.
we eo He recalls however, that three officers from the Immigration Department once vis-
~ {ted him’and told him about the detainer that was being held on him. Similarly,
while he was in dail, the IRS: interviewed him in Los Angeles about the finder's
fee he received in the Frontier Hotel. ‘The investigation may have related somewhat
to Maheu, but, since it was so short, he does not recall what the discussion a
"about Maheu concerned. ‘He. “noted that no one has ever asked him about Danner,
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With regard to Hank Greenspun, Roselli has known him since the 50's.
The last time he met Greenspun was when he ran into Greenspun in Los Angeles shortly
after he got out of prison, at which time they talked a few minutes. No questions
were asked and there was no discussion with Greenspun about his involvement with
Maheu. He noted that Greenspun } has never questioned him about any matters.

He noted that “he has never met Gordon Liddy, Howard Hunt or any of the
Cuban Americans who wére involved in the Watergate break-in. He said however that
he has been Liddy once, and that was at Terminal Island when he was acting as a

' prison librarian. There were no discussions with Liddy. He is fairly certain he -

has never met Hunt with regard to any CIA involvement of his own. He also noted
that he has never had any property | or business dealings in Cuba. a ae

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The interview concluded with the serving of a subpoena upon Mr. Roselli
and the decision to hold a further meeting under oath at a Jater date.

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12 a Plaintiff,
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_ 14] Maurice H. FRIEDMAN;
_ || MANUEL JACOBS (aka RICKY JACOBS);

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T. WARNER RICHARDSON,

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18 U.S.C. §1952: Interstate-

Transportation in Aid of
Racketeering; 18 U.S.C. §2314:
Interstate Transportation of
Funds Obtained by Fraud; .
47 U.S.C. §502: Operating Un-
certified Communication | Device
26 U.S.C. $7206 (1) Subscribing
False Tax Return. }

Commencing prior to June 15, 1962, and continuing. to the
date of the return of this indictment, defendants MAURICE H. FRIEDMAN

° WARNER RICHARDSON, FILIPPO Sacco (also Known as JOHN ROSSELLI),
PENJAMIN TEITELBAUM, and their unindicted co-conspirators Ernest S,

| ceorge McFarland), Alfred Mathes, George E. Seach, and Albert Snyder

FILIPPO SACCO (aka JOHN ROSSELLI);
7 EENJAMIN TEITELBAUM, | ;
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19 The Grand Jury charges:
20 COUNT ONE
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24 ‘MANUEL JACOBS (also known as RICKY JACOBS), VICTOR G. LANDS,
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against the United States as follows:

agreed, confederated and conspired together to commit offenses

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ADRIAN MARSHALL
WADDEN, WALL: & RUDY
9601 Wilshire Blvd.

Suite 400

Beverly Hills, California 90210

272- ~9211
Attorneys for Defendant

Filippo Sacco, also known as .
John Rosselli.

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TO DAVID R. NISSEN, Chief, Criminal Division, Umited States Attorneys
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PLEASE ‘TAKE NOTICE that.On July 6, 1971, at 2:00 o'clock P.M. :

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a fine of $10,000.00 for Count Six, and two years imprisonment to run

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3] Sixteen, Seventeen and Eighteen of the Indictment, and one year imprisonment
4 to run concurrently with Count One and.a fine of $5,000. 00 for Count
5§|| Twenty-Two. The total imprisonment was five years and the total fine was
6|| $55, 000. 00. | | |
-] On January 18th and'19th, 1971, there appeared in newspapers |
8|| throughout the country nationally syndicated articles by columnist
Oi Jack Anderson alleging that defendant had assisted the Central Intelligence
101} Agency of the United States Government as set forth in said articles.
121 - The affidavits of. Jack Anderson and his assistant, Les Whitten, are
12|| attached hereto and included therewith are copies of the columns, set forth
13 as Exhibits A andB. Exhibits A and B were published on the 18th and 19th
14 | of January, 1971. Attached as Exhibit C is a follow-up column which
15]: appeared on February 24, 1971, and Exhibits D and E which are copies
16]|} of the office records of columnist Jack Anderson, which were released
17], and published on April 18th and April 27th, 1971. a ;
13] The undersigned is informed that at no-time prior to the
49 sentencing of defendant were the matters set forth in Exhibits A and B
20|| of the attached affidavits brought to the Court's attention. It is the belief
21), of the undersigned that had these matters been brought to the Court's
22|, attention they would have materially affected the sentence handed down.
23 by the Court in this case.
24 Defendant proposes to file and serve additional affidavits in |
25 support of this written motion and to present the testimony of at least one
26]; witess at the hearing on July 6, 1971. The additional affidavits and/or
27 testimony to be produced at the hearing may relate to the financial ability
28) of defendant to pay the fine of $55, 000.00 as well as the condition of
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1. Rule 35 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure.
2. United States v. Ellenbogen (2nd Cir.) 390 F. 2d 537.

DATED: June 25, 1971. oe
Respectfully submitted,

ADRIAN MARSHALL
WADDEN, WALL & RUDY

Attorneys for Defendant,
Filippo Sacco, also known
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AFFIDAVIT IN SUPPORT OF MOTION
FOR REDUCTION OF SENTENCE
AND REQUEST FOR. EVIDENTIARY HEARING

CITY OF WASHINGTON )
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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA }

JACK ANDERSON, being duly sworn, deposes. and says the ;

following:

1. I ama nationally syndicated columnist writing
under my own by-line. For many years prior to the death of Mr.
Drew Pearson, he and I wrote a column known as the "Washington
Merry-Go-Round".

2. I wrote the. articles attached hereto as Exhibits
A and B pertaining to certain activities performed by John
Rosselli, the Defendant herein, on behalf of the United States
Government.

3. “The information contained in said articles was
made available to me by persons employed by the United States
Government who, in the past, have supplied ne with accurate and
truthful information as pertains to other subjects.

4. after receiving said basic information, my staff
and I. conducted an impartial and independent investigation
regarding John Rosselli's activities as destribed in Exhibit A,

which were performed at the behest of Agents of the United

States Government.

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5. The aforementioned investigation satisfied me that

the facts set forth in Exhibit A are a truthful account of Mr.

Rosselli's activities as described therein.

Sworn to before me this 17th day of @fne, 1971.
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Rosselli, and services performed by him on behalf of the Central

Intelligence Agency, an organ of the United States Federal Gov-

Department in order to mitigate the government's prosecution of

AFFIDAVIT IN SUPPORT OF MOTION
FOR REDUCTION OF SENTENCE
AND REQUEST FOR EVIDENTIARY HEARING

CITY OF WASHINGTON) oe,
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LESLIE WHITTEN, being duly sworn, deposes and says the

1. I am employed as principal associate of nationally-

syndicated columnist Jack Anderson, writer of:."Washington Merry-

Go-Round". 7 - oS

2. I worked on certain articles relating to John

ernment. ,
3. As part of my investigation, I twice called William
K. Harvey, a retired Central Intelligence Agency official, now of
Indianapolis. |

4 On my first call, in January, I asked Harvey if it

were not true that he had personally intervened with the Justice

Rosselli on the basis that Rosselli had done a’ formidable service
for his country. Harvey said "this is a long story . . . I don't
think it ought to be printed." I asked him whether it was not
true that he had a high regard for Rosselli. *I still do," he
earnestly replied. .

5- In pursuing the story further, I called Harvey

again in Indianapolis in February and asked him whether he could -

comment on our story about Rosselli which by now has been pub-

lished widely in the United States. He declined to comment. But

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he twice reaffirméd his "high regard" for Rosselli. I advised
him I was making an affidavit on Rosselli's behalf. and he ex-
pressed concern for Rosselli, asked his present status and said
he would "follow up" on Rosselli's behalf from his end.

| 6. Based on my part of the investigation, I am satis-
fied that the facts set down in Exhibit A, appended to the Affi-
davit of Jack Anderson, are a truthful account of Rosselli! s

activities on behalf of the United States.

LESLIE WHITTEN
- Sworn to before me this 17th day of June, 1971.

NOTARY PUBLIC

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

ADRIAN MARSHALL- .
WADDEN, WALL & RUDY
9601 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 400

- Beverly Hills, California 90210

272 9211

Attorneys for Defendant

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT «>
CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA a

NO. 1175- PH

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Plaintiff, 4 = MOTION FOR REDUCTION”
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CVS a | REQUEST FOR EVIDENTIARY
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| HEARING
FILIPPO SACCO, also known :
as JOHN ROSSELLI, | =

Defendant.

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Defendant FILIPPO SACCO, also known as JOHN ROSSELLI,. by his attorneys, -

ADRIAN MARSHALL and WADDEN, WALL & RUDY, _requests this Court

to grant a hearing for the presentation of oral testimony ‘and other evidence’.
in support of defendant's Motion for Reduction of Sentence entered in this”
case. As grounds therefor defendant alleges:

1. Defendant was convicted of six counts of violation of Title 8-

U.S.C. Sections 1302 and 1306 (a) and Title 8 U.S.C. Sections 1305 and

1306 (b) and sentenced to six months on Count 1 and thirty days on Counts

2 through 6, all to run concurrently. .

2. , On January 18, 1971, the mandate was spread and defendant was
ordered to surrender to the United States Marshal at noon on January 25, 1971,.
for direct delivery of defendant to Terminal Island for service of his sentence.

3. Ct “On January 18 and 19, 1971, there appeared in newspapers through

out the country nationally syndicated articles of columnist Jack Anderson

alleging that defendant had assisted the Central Intelligence Agency in an

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assassination attempt against Fidel Castro. Attached hereto as Exhibits A
and B are Xerox copies of said publications.
4. _ At no time prior to the sentencing of defendant \ were the ©
matters referred to in Exhibits A and B brought to the Court’ s attention, -
5. _ At an evidentiary hearing, defendant will present oral testimony
and other evidence in support of this motion related to the matters set forth

| in Jack Anderson’ s column which defendant feels will materially affect the | - -

Court’ s reconsideration of the sentence entered in this case. ares io

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Dated: © February12, 1971
. ; i Respectfully submitted,
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WADDEN, WALL & RUDY

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June 24, 1978 tescinony of John Rosselli before Committee
Senator \Church presiding .

p. 7-8 Los Angeles

Rosselli first met Maheu in approximately July, 1960,

pursuant to a telephone call from Maheu. At their first
meeting, Maheu told Rosselli that a high government official
had requested that Maheu recruit Rosselli to "fight Communism
90 miles away from Florida" -- to recruit Cubans to assassinate
Castro.

New York

p. 10-11 Rosselli had second meeting with Maheu and went to New York
; in September under the alias of John Rawiston [Castro was
in New York at this time]. Rosselli met Jim O'Connell of
CIA, plus "three others."

Florida

p. 12-15 O'Connell, Maheu and Rosselli met in Florida hotel approxi-
mately one week after New York. Rosselli introduced Giancana
to Maheu. Also introduced X (Trafficante) to Maheu. Obtained
permission from Maheu to bring Giancanainto project.

p. 17 Rosselli recruits Cuban #1, Rosselli's cover was as Wall Street
businessman. Rosselli and Maheu agree on a $250,000 price tag
for the job.

p. 20 O'Connell never met Cubans. Trafficante, Cubans and Maheu met.

Maheu brought $10,000 and poison capsules.

‘p. 26 | Rosselli told Giancana about CIA involvement to keep his mouth.
' ghut. Rosselli only had one discussion with Giancana.

p. 27 O'Connell called Rosselli after Bay of Pigs. Met in Florida
not long after Bay of Pigs with William Harvey, O'Connell and
Rosselli. Harvey told Rosselli that he wanted Rosselli to
have nothing to do with Maheu and not to use Giancana connections.

p. 35 Rosselli indicates that pro-Castro people in Florida probably
had inkling of assassination attempts.

p. 44 During Missle Crisis, Harvey asked Rosselli to see if "they"
had any intelligence on us, on. the missiles.

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p. 79-80
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p. 82
p. 84
p. 85-87
p. 88
p. 89
p. 90

FBI agents Hill and Dodge met with Rosselli and his lawyer,
Cantillon, At this time Dodge informed Rosselli that the

FBI was aware that he was not a U.S. citizen. Dodge indicated
something about Nevada and some other secret organizations.

Rosselli met with Sheffield Edwards in 1966 for some drinks
and discussed his problems with the FBI.

Rosselli received a telephone call from an FBI agent, Jack
Barron in June of 1970. The agent informed Rosselli that his
appeals can be reversed. He was told that his lawyers and
friends can't do anything for him in Washington.

Rosselli talked with Bill Harvey prior to his testimony before
the Select Committee to see if Harvey had objections and

Harvey only suggested that Rosselli protect those people whose
lives and whose families might be jeopardized by his testimony.

Rosselli stated he did not know the five so-called Watergate
burglars -- Hunt, McCord, Barker, Martinez or Sturgis.

Roselli had no doubt that the Cuban operation was on behalf
of the CIA and not Mr. Hughes.

Rosselli stated that his Cuban contacts were never informed .

‘that this was a CIA project, but that ‘he represented a Wall

Street business:

“In the period 1967-1968, Rosselli failed to register as an

alien and faced criminal charges.

Rosselli describes how he is brought into the operation --
Maheu's contact: and O'Connell's satisfying him that they
were government representatives.

Rosselli stated that Sheffield Edwards was not overly concerned
with the FBI's contacting Rosselli.

Rossell's reason for not informing his sources that it was
a CIA operation was because he believed he would be more
successful doing what he was doing by representing big

business.

When the FBI contacted Rosselli in both 1966 and 1970
they hinted that they wanted Rosselli to provide information
about United States gambling interests. ;

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p. 45-46
p. 47

p. 47

Pp. 52.
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p. 54-55 |
p. 58 |
Pp. 59.
Pp. 61
“p. 62

p. 64

p. 66

After the Cuban Missile Crisis, the whole operation came
to a halt and Rosselli said he was never in contact. with
the Cubans again..

Rosselli met Harvey at Dulles Airport in Washington after
the Missile Crisis, in June 1963, and had dinner with him
in Washington that night.

Rosselli mentions FBI had him under surveillance for several
years. ; So

Roselli has two stories re Rowan wiretap from Maheu. Maheu
told him he wanted Rosselli to get some bail money for two
guys in Las Vegas who were in trouble and he had placed some
taps in Rowan's room because 1) Maheu was doing Giancana a
favor, and 2) Maheu had the authority to see if Giancana was

leaking to his girlfriend.

Rosselli arranged bail money for the two men who were caught
tapping Rowan's room.

Giancana laughed when Rosselli discussed tapping incident with
him, but gave no clues to the reason for the tap.

Rosselli'met in New York with O'Connell and Harvey in April
1962. ,

Rosselli states to the Committee that he felt the CIA came
to him because he has contacts in Cuba.

Rosselli states he took on "project" because it was the
government; he was patriotic.

Rosselli knew Trafficante before “operation” started.

Rosselli maintained some contact with Maheu after Harvey took’
over. : : : ;

Rosselli still is social friends with Harvey.
In April or May of 1966, Rosselli was stopped in the street

by two FBI agents with note saying to meet him later. Rosselli
referred them to his attorney, Mr. Cantillon

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SELECT COMMITTEE TO
STUDY GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS WITH
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(PURSUANT TO S. RES. 21, 4TH concress)
WASHINGTON, 0.C. 20510
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_ Howard--

In re your "battle plan" memo. to Hart
and Garn, I think you should consider possible
wis dom of our Committee making some kind of
very low-key anouncement that we're doing
something. Purpose would be two-fold--to
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insure that the sources out there come to us.
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to House. under assumption that that’s the only
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I told Ford in strict confidence that the Director concurred with his
viewpoint. I mentioned that our investigation thus far had conclusively shown that 2
.Oswald operated by himself and that Ruby additionally was a loner, However, FBI
~@ investigation was still pending on a large number of rumors, speculation and gossip
4 ‘and it, therefore. :vould be quite unfair for the Commission to take a stand prior to
pul the evidence being turned in. Ford stated this was his point entirely and that
“Although he was a minority of one he intended to slick to hs point. '

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one week ago, gone up to his otfice and told him that CIA had uncovered some : wu
“startling information" in the Oswald case. MecCone proceeded to tell Ford that a
F source of CL\'s in Mexico had seen money exchanee hands between Oswald and an
“unknown Cuban Nevro. Ford stated this excited him greaily inasmuch as it definitely
q. cended to show there was an international connection involved in the assassination <f
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wm traighten out questions in his mind concerning our investigation. I told him by all ; oF
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“one man comunission') by appointing a Chief Counsel, Warren Olney, that was his own
protege. Ford stated that after the mention of Olney's name by the Chief Justice, at
\Wheir first meeting, Allow Dulles, former Director of CIA, protested quite violently. 1
Because of Dullés’ protest, the other members told Warren that they would like to know .- |

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made in Deputy Attorney General tatz
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to his office and told him that CLA had uncovered some
in the Oswald case. McCone proceeded to tell Ford that a

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involved in the assassination <f
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Kennedy and th

Conspincy theories are fashionable,
‘sometimes even fruitful, as in the
case of Watergate. So it is not surprising
that recent revelations of the Senate In-
telligence Committee have resurrected
an old question: what connection, ifany,
did the Castro government have with the
assassination of John F. Kennedy?
Current speculation is that the Cuban
dictator, having learned of CIA plots
against his life, decided to strike back,
returning violence for violence, with
consequences that are now history. In-
deed, the recent report of the Schweiker-
Hart task force, while finding no hard
evidence to support this theory, did un-
cover some interesting new leads. More
_ than that, it established that a CIA-FBI
“cover-up” had deprived the Warren
commission of vital information that pre-
vented it from. seriously exploring the
possibility of Castro's involvement and
that consequentry~ there is no longer any

reason to have faith in its picture of the _

Kennedy assassination.”

And so we may well have a reopening
of the ingestigation. At last.

Given all this, it seems appropriate to
examine the record of the period. A small
but interesting body of published testi-
mony and reminiscences describes and
wnply documents a little-known cam-
paign of accommodation launched by
Washington and Havana in the weeks
preceding that fateful day in November
1963. Actually, the origins of this tenta-
tive and ultimately ill-fated rapproche-
iment may be traced to the previous
spring, when. Castro, increasingly de-
pendent on his Soviet sponsors, found
himself obliged to embrace the banner of
“neaceful coexistence” in order to obtain

economic and military agreements need-

ed to assure the continued development
of his revolution. In practical terms, this
meant the normalization. of relations
with the United States.

‘A MESSAGE FOR CASTRO
It was not until September 1963, how-

ever, that this campaign began to show |

results. At that time, William Attwood, an
adviser to the U.S. delegation to the
United Nations, told his superiors he had
word that Castro wanted an accommoda-
tion. John Kennedy got the message and
approved a “discreet contact” with the
Cuban U.N. representative, Carlos Le-
chuga. Subsequently, communications
were established and meetings held

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to discuss the prospect of negotiations.

By éarly November, Kennedy had de-
cided 'to push toward an opening with
Cuba in hopes of taking Castro out of the
Soviet fold and erasing the memory of
the Bay of Pigs. The Americans sought a
meeting to draw up an agenda for later
discussions. On Nov. 18, this message
was transmitted to Havana. Shortly
thereafter, Lechuga was instructed to set
forth such a plan for U.S. consideration.

Even as these developments were un-
folding, a second dialogue was taking
place through an unofficial envoy—the
French journalist Jean Daniel. On Oct.
24, Kennedy had received Daniel in the
White House. The President, it seems,
had learned of the Frenchman's forth-
coming visit to Cuba and had decided to
seize the occasion to send Castro a mes-
sage. The essence of this communication
was a strong hint that the United States

‘would be willing to normalize relations
providing certain conditions were met. -

What were those conditions? One, clear-
ly, was an end to Castroite subversion.
The U.S. had a special responsibility to
contain Communist expansionism. As
long as Havana continued to export revo-
lution, the economic “blockade” of the
island-would remain in effect.

ACCOMMODATIONS

Beyond this, not much was definite.
The American negotiating position had
not yet been worked out. Even so, hints
of possible Cuban participation in the
Alliance for Progress and of the desire of
the United States to see a decline in
Soviet influence on the island suggested
further avenues for discussion.

Bearing this message and an invitation
to revisit the White House upon his re-
turn, Daniel set off for Cuba. There he
found a remarkably receptive Fidel Cas-
tro. Indeed, during the course of a six-
hour interview the der mdximo found
occasion to praise the American Presi-

dent for his sincerity, realism and “good

ideas’: Kennedy might yet understand
that there could be “coexistence be-
tween capitalists and socialists, even in
the Americas.” Castro was convinced
that normal relations could be restored
“on the basis of mutual respect for sover-
eignty.” His country needed peace in
order to corcentrate on the socio-eco-
nomic tasks of the revolution. The issue
of subversion would not be an obstacle.
Cubans would naturally “feel solidarity”

Denald E: Schulz

e Cuban Connection

with their revolu-
tionary, brethren in
other lands. But ul-
timately, each na-
tion would have to
determine its own
destiny, and “ifthey
choose regimes oth- ;
er than ours, this is not our business.”

This was two days prior to President
Kennedy’s death. ;

I, mentian these developments be-
cause they provide an important—and
perhaps crucial—frame of reference for
Congressional investigators and the pub-
lic alike: They are not, of course, proof of
innocence. But they are suggestive:
would Castro have been so intent on
coming to terms with a man he was
conspiring to kill? One may seriously
doubt it. In point of fact, the assassina-
tion would bring a quick end to Washing-
ton’s interest in accommodation. —

POSSIBLE SCENARIOS

Still, this is not to rule out the possibil-
ity of a “Cuban connection.” Govern-

-ments often behave in inconsistent and

self-defeating ways. Indeed, even as the
Kennedy Administration was taking
these first covert steps toward rap-
prochement, the CIA was engaged in an

attempt on Castro’s life. If, due to a lack

of political control and a prevailing at-
mosphere of cold-war hostility, U.S
agents could be conducting such activi-
ties in direct conflict with Presidential
policy, it is not difficult to imagine simi-
lar distortions on the Cuban side. Only a
few weeks earlier, Castro had publicly
denounced U.S.-sponsored assassina-

tions and even threatened retaliation.

Might not some overzealous security of
ficials have taken this for tacit authority
to set up a “program of elimination”?

But all this remains speculation. It is. -

possible to envision any number of sce-
narios that might have Icd to. the fatal
events of Nov. 22. In lieu of hard evi-

dence, however, itseems only fairto give -

Castro the same benefit of the doubt that
Kennedy has been accorded—namely,
that he be considered innocent until
proved guilty. It is hoped that the inves-
tigations to come will proceed on the
basis of that assumption.

Schulz, a Ph.D. candidate in political
science at Ohio State University, is writ-
ing a book on the Cuban revolution.

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PART. TNO: JIM. BRADEN

One of the most incredible bodies of recent information
concerning the alleged conspiracy to assassinate President
Kennedy is largely based on the investigative research

done by Peter Noyes, a former CBS Producer and top inves- .-
tigative reporter.

Last year, Noyes published a. book, Legacy of Doubt, which
summed up many of his findings, and which generally outlines
what Noyes believes was heavy Mafia involvement in the
assassination. The Noyes book is almost entirely factual

and is largely based on substantiated information such as
police records provided by the FBI, the Los Angeles Police
Department, the California Attorney General's Office, and
Texas police officials.

Though the Noves book (like most recent assassination books)
aid not sell well or receive much press attention, it has
been regarded as a valuable contribution by most of author
Noyes' fellow Warren Commission critics.

It can definitely be said that almost all of Noyes' findings,
particularly with respect to his main character Jim Braden,
have been factually substantiated and are solidly established
by official police records. .

Basically the Noyes book outlines the background of a

mysterious man who was picked up by the police at the scene

of President Kennedy's assassination just minutes after the
shooting. The man was apprehended by a Dallas policeman who 1
thought he was behaving suspiciously. The man, who identified
himself under the false name of Jim Braden, was released

shortly thereafter following brief questioning by the Dallas
Sheriff's office.

Author Noyes uncovered the story of Jim Braden and his
true identity during five years of investigative research.

And it is Jim Braden's true identity and his ironic misfortune
Of being picked up at the scene of the assassination for
"looking suspicious" that the Warren Commission critics now
believe ranks with James McCord ' gs mistake of leaving masking
tape on the doors during the Watergate break- -in as the ultimate.
fatal slip-ups in the two conspiracies.

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For Jim Braden, whose true identity is Eugene Hale Brading,
is a man with singularly awesome direct ties to the highest
levels of the Mafia. Of all the Mafia figures connected to
the syndicate's crucial security and enforcement activities
of coercion, maiming, intra-syndicate assassination and
outside murder contracting, Jim Braden appears to be an
indispensable link - or leader - of organized crime's

far flung network of "controlled violence" specialists

and professional hit men.

Braden's involvement with the Mafia'ts hiqhest echelon
"enforcers" has spanned the continent from coast to coast
and covers virtually every national crime syndicate juris-
diction, According to federal authorities working with the
Justice Department's organized crime strike force units, and
according to other high government sources cited by author
Noyes, Jim Braden is now serving as personal courier for
Meyer Lansky.

The importance of this mysterious man who was picked up
under a false name across the street from the Texas Book
Depository just moments after the shots were fired on
November 22, 1963 cannot be overemphasized.

Though there were several innocent witnesses or bystanders
in the area of the assassination who were also arrested or
brought in for questioning by the Dallas police, all of whom
were shortly released like Jim Braden, his presence there at
that precise moment does in fact raise an incredible specter,
and may indeed have been the monumental slip-up that critics
of the Warren Commission now attest to.

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Jin Braden's Arrest On November 22

Deputy C.L. Lewis was one of the first Dallas police
officers on the scene at the Texas School Book Depository
following the assassination.

within just minutes after the deadly shots were fired,
Deputy Lewis confronted a man across the street. fron the
Book Depository, a man whom Lewis thought was "acting
suspiciously."

Deputy Lewis questioned the man for several minutes before
taking him to the Sheriff's office for further interrogation.
The man identified himself as Jim Braden, and said that he
was in the oil business in Beverly Hills. California. Deputy
Lewis became even more suspicious over the way the man first
tried to identify himself. Instead of producing his driver's
license, the common means of identification, the man pulled
out a gasoline credit card instead.

The man who identified himself. as Jim Braden strongly protested
when Deputy Lawis told him that he would have to take him in
for further interrogation,

At the Sheriff's office, Jim Braden agreed to make a voluntary
Statement, Braden, then 48, told the police that he was in
Dallas on oil business and had been there for two days. He
said he was staying at the Cabana Motel, s short distance away
from the scene of the assassination. Braden said’he had been
walking down the stroet by the Texas Book Depository at the
time of the assassination and had been looking for a taxi cab.
Jin Braden further stated that he was confronted by Deputy
Lewis inside a building across the street from the Depository
during an attempt to make a telephone call following the
‘shooting.

Braden was shortly thereafter released by the Dallas Sheriff's”
office. Braden was not fingerprinted, nor was any check made
| of possible criminal records relating to him.

Two months later, in late January cf 1964, Jim Braden was
interviewed by two FBI agents at his office in Beverly Hills.
The Warren Commission's investigation was then in full swing
and witnesses to the assassination were being questioned by
the FRI and other authoritics. In his FBI interview, Braden
qave the same account as he had given to the Dallas police on
the day of the assassination. The FBI's official report on
Braden's interrogation further stated that, "Braden has no
information concerning the assassination and both Lee Harvey
Oswald and Jack Ruby are unknown to him."

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: Jim Braden's Truc Identity

In early 1969, Peter Noves, the investigative reporter.
whose book covers much of the information regarding Jim
raden, began investigating the mysterious California

"oil man."

Moyes originally received a tip about Braden from a

former FBI agent who was then aiding District Attorney

Jim Garrison's investigation of the Kennedy assassination,
The PBI man told Noves of Braden's presence at the scene of
the assasSination at the time of the shooting.

Noyes soon found that Jim Braden was no longer at cither

of the addresses that he had given the Dallas police, and
had left no forwarding addresses,

Noves then had the California Department of Motor Vehicles
run a check on the license number that Braden had given to
the Dallas molice at the Sheriff's office following the
assassination. Hotor Vehicles told Noves that Eraden's
license (1751755) had been renewed by Braden in San Diego
county in Movember of 1966. Braden has also listed new
business and home addresses, which interestingly were over
a hundred miles apart.

The Department of Motor Vehicles! records on Jim Braden
also showed that "Jim Braden" was not really his original
name. The license had actually been issued in the 1950's
to Eugene Hale Brading, which is Braden's true identity.

On September 10, 1963, just ten weeks before the assassination,
Eugene Nale-Brading had notified the Department that he had
leqallv changed his name to Jim Braden, and he requested a

new license under that name. The license was granted,

Intrigued by the fact that Jim Braden was really a false
identity assumed lov Euqene Brading, investigator Noves
contacted the Intelligence Division of the California
Attorney Genoral's Office, and had a check run on the
mysterious Brading.

ves was told that Eugene Hale Brading “is a real bad guy.
's got a long rap sheet and apparantly has Mafia connections."
Royes shortly thereafter obtained a copy of Eugene Brading's
(Jim Braden's)’ police records.

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The Brading "rap sheet" contained an incredible 35
seperate entries covering virtually every phase of
criminal activity, including mail fraud, embezzlement,
onerating a gambling house in Miami, car theft, shop
lifting, receiving stolen vroperty, and sclling wartime
gas ration coupons on the black market.

Most of these arrests had been made under the nane of
Sugene Hale Brading, but the police dossier on him also
showed a handful of other aliases, including Harry Eugene
_ Bradley, Gene Brady, James Lee Cole, James Bradley Lee,
and inevitably, Jim Braden.

"Jim Braden" was the last entry shown on Brading's
records.

Incredibly, investigator Noyes found that due to the fact
that the Dallas rolice had not fingerprinted Jim Braden or
run.a make on him, his truce identity of Nugene Brading was
never discovered by the PBI or the Warren Commission at the
time of their investigation of the assassination, The Warren
Commission had only routinely included Braden's short state~-
“ment about being in Dallas on "oil business" in a police
exhibit on witnesses contained.in Warren Commission Hearing's
Volume KIX, Jim Braden and his story had been accepted at
face value.

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Jin Braden (Sucene Brading) And.The Mafia

Investigator Noyes began a thorough investigation of
Braden based upon all available police records and
documents. ,

What soon clearly emerged was a long record of involvement
by Braden (Brading) with many of the most notorious Mafia
leaders in the nation, a record of close association with
key figures in the national crime syndicate,

Following a string of arrests in the 1940's, ‘dating all
the wav back to his young adulthood, Eugene Brading had

moved to El Paso, Texas, in 1950.

BRADING AND PEREIRA)

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In El Paso, Brading became closelv associated with Victor
Percira, a man who was a close associate and confidante of
several] Mafia members. Brading and Pereira became involved

in a number of schemes involving marriage to and embezzlement
of wealthy widows, :

In 1951, Bracing and his close friend Porcira were arrested
by the PRI in New York on a fugitive warrant issued in Texas,
The two men were charged with embezzling over $50,000 from

a wealthy widow whom Pereira had marricd shortly before
fleoing with her money. Brading and Percira were soon con=
victed of the charges and were each sentenced to 12 years

in prison. :

llowever, Rrading and Foreira were out free during the three
years of their appeals, and Brading was later paroled in 1959
after having served just five years of his. sentence,

(BRADING AID THE SMALDOIES)-

Durinca the three vears of freedom under their appeals of the
convictions, Erading and Pereira left Texas (following still
another fleecing of another wealthy widow) and moved to
Denver, Colorado. ‘ s

In Denver, Brading became very closely associated with

tvo leading Mafia bosses in the Rocky Mountain area, Clyde
and Gene Smaldone.

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the Smaldone brothers, who were also known as “Checkers
and Flin Flon," were the Mafia leaders in charge of the
syndicate's vending-machine market which stretched from
the Rockics all the way to Chicago. Police records show.
that at one time, the Smaldones virtually controlled the
entire Pueblo area of Colorado,

The Smaldone brothers were notorious for the brutal brand

of violence they practiced in their operations. Brading
(Braden) became involved in many transactions with the
Smaldones and became a close personal friend. Several years
later, after Brading finally went to jail for the embezzlement
of the Texas widow, the Smaldone brothers reqularly wrote

to him in prison, seeking his advice on various financial
matters.

(BRADING AND CLARK AND BAUIMAIT)

Brading and his friend Pereira later moved to Beverly Hills
in California. Shortly thereafter, Brading inevitably came
under investiaqation by the Los Angeles Police Department .

Intelligence Division's Mafia specialists.

-In particular, the LAPD interest in Drading was focused on
his close association in Beverly Hills with two “oil specu-
lators" from Hiami, Arthur Clark and Roger Bauman. Clark
and. Bauman were notorious Mafia figures with long police
records.

Brading's friend Clark had been one of the ton leaders of
the famous Purple Gang of the Mafia, which had overated
out of Detroit and Youngstown. The Los Ancecles police had
mlaced Clark and Bauman under tight surveillance and had
compiled extensive information on their friendship with
Brading. :

In 1956, the Chief of Intelligence of the LAPD, Captain
James Hamilton, sent a letter to the Crime Commission of
Greater Miami seeking information about Clark, Bauman, and
Brading.

Captain Hamilton, who was known as one of the foremost

experts on the Hafia in the nation, ashed the Miami Commission
(which was conducting extensive investigations of the Mafia)
to inform him as to the involvement of several associates of
Clark and Bauman. ;

Among those named was Eugene Brading.

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Captain Hamilton's letter stated:
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"This Denartmenti has under investigation Arthur
Lewis Clark, Sr., FBI 3709258, and a Roger Bauman.
' These men are representing themselves as officials
of the Sunbeam O11 Company, 212 Roosevelt Theater
Building, Miami Beach, and both are spending money
very lavishly."

"Clark has been arrested several times and has been -
associated with many confidence men and heodlums such
as Janes Fratianno, Victor Poroira,. Zugene Brading,
Clarence Rhodes, Stephen Sambor and the Siraldone
brothers of Denver." ,

‘As investigator Peter ijoves points out, the men listed
with Brading in the letter, represent a virtual “Who's Who"
of organized crime leaders between California and the Midwest.

(BRADING AUD FRATIANNO)

Of these top Hafia men listed with Brading (Braden) perhans
the most important one is James Fratianno, also widely known
as "Jimmie The Weasel." Fratianno was known as perhaps the
“Mafia's highest ranking executioner in the nation.

In 1959, in his testimony before the Rackets Conmittee of
the California legislature, Captain Hamilton, the Chief of
- LAPD Intelligence, stated that,

"Ge have. long considered Fratianno to
be the exccutioner for the Nafia on
the West Coast."

Captain Hamilton told the Rackets Committee that his Intelligence
Division had linked Jimmie Pratianno to at least sixteen Hafia
executions. : :

Fratianno had once been arrested for the attempted assassination
of Los Angeles Nafia head Mickey Cohen in 1949, Cohen had
survived the bloody shooting which took the life of one of

his lieutenants. Fratianno was later released due to insuf-
ficient evidence. Fratianno used the alibi that he had been

at the home of Mafia associate Wick Licata the night of the
shooting, Licata-later became the new head of the Los Angeles
Mafia, and, perhaps siqnificantly, was later given control of
the Mafia in Dallas, Texas.

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Jimmie Fratianno was ‘also susnected of complicity in
the murders of two men in 1951. Two men who made the
.mistake of robbing the Nafia's Flamingo Hotel in Las
Vegas were found dead'in a narked car following the
robbery. Both of their skulls had been shattered bv
bullets fired behind the ear, apparantlv in true Mafia
fashion,

Fratianno-had also been linked to the famous murder of
Harry "HYooky" Rothman, who had been another close
associate of Miekey Cohen, the Los Angeles Nafia head,
Also, Fratianno was also linked to the disappearance of
another top member of the Nickey Cohen gang, Frank Uiccoli.
Niecoli had mysteriously vanished following a late dinner
at Fratianno's home one night.

Fratianno was also linked to the brutal murder of a business-
man in northern California in 1952, Thomas Keen, a wealthy
gambler, had apparantly welched on a $80,000 gambling debt
that he owed the Mafia, and was blown to bits from a dynamite
charge hidden under the hood of his car.

Pratianno later served a six year prison term (1954-1960) for
_emtortion. In later years Fratianno became the central fiaqure
involved in LOOK magazine's "expose" of San Francisco Mayor
Joseph Alioto's alleged Mafia connections. LOOK alleged that
Fratianno had become a close friend of Mavor Alito and that
the Mayor had arranged for Fratianno to receive loans of over
$105,000 from a bank where Alioto served as Chairman of the.
Board. Alioto admitted that Fratianno was a "casual acquaintance"
of his, but denicd that’ he had used anv influence in the loans.
The Hayor also said that he had not known that the notorious
Fratianno was a member of the Nafia. :

{BRADING AUD MELTZER)

“hile in Los Angeles, Brading (Jim Braden) also became
connected with top Mafia leader Narold “llanny" Neltzer.
The LAPD Intelligence Division had originally become

aware of Brading's close relationship with’ Neltzer when
Brading's name was found on Neltzer's Christmas card list.
Meltzer was widely known as one of the most powerful Mafia
leaders in the entire nation. .

Tho U.S. Senate Rackets Committee identified Brading's
friend Neltser as a ton Nafia boss in the areas of union
racketeering and narcotics.

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A revort of the Senate Rackets Committee from 1964 states:

"Meltzer now is reported to operate a large

bookmaking and prostitution syndicate in

California. A major figure in the organized
underworld, he is known to all the important

narcotics traffickers throughout the United

States. He has also overated in Oklahoma,

Temas, Baltimore, Hiami, Las Vegas, Boston, .
and various areas of Canada, Cuba, long Kong, i
Japan, Hawaii, and the Philippines."

(BRADIHG ALD THE SICAS)

In Los Anceles, Brading also became closely associated with
yet another top Nafia operation, Brading became a close
friend and associate of the notorious Sica brothers = Joe,
Preddie, and George. The Sica brothers were particularly
brutal syndicate members specializing in narcotics.

In 1950, the U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles accused Brading's
friends, Joo and Freddie Sica, of heading the single largest
narcotics ring in the United States.

The Sica brothers were shortly thereafter brought to trial.

On the night before the trial onened, the government's ,

star witness, an informant named Abe Davidian, was mysteriously
shot to death in his mother's home in Fresno. The murder was
never solvod and the Sica brothers were soon released for

lack of evidence.

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Jim Braden: Possible Link To Jack Buby

The same inadequate investigative work which led the
Warren Commission to largely overlook Jack Ruby's solid
Mafia involvement, apnecars also to have been responsible
for the failure to uncover Jim Braden's true identity of
Eugene Brading during the official investigation into the
Kennedy assassination. a, ,

As shown in the previous account of Jack Ruby's very
substantial ties to the Mafia, Ruby was particularly
involved in the syndicate areas of gambling and narcotics.

But bavond the multiplicity. of evidence which indicates
that Jack Rubv and Jim Braden were both important Nafia
figures operating in the same general areas, at the same
general times, there is another sinale niece of evidence

-which places both Ruby and Braden at the same place on the
day before the assassination,

Evidence indicates that both Jim Braden and Jack Ruby
visited the Dallas offices of the H.L. Munt O11 Company
on the afternoon of Vovember 21, 1963, just twenty four.
hours before the President was murdered, Obviously any
link which places both Braden and Ruby in the same place
at the same time on the day before the assassination does
of course raise further significant questions about a
possible relationship between the two men.

Jim Braden received vermission from the U.5
Parole in Los Andqeles to make a trip to Dal
November 198, 1963, four days before the assa
Braden was reauired to report all of his
Parole Board following his parole .in 1959 £
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On November 21, 1963, the day before the assassination,
Jim Braden checked in with the U.S. Parole Office in
Dallas: Accordina to Roger Carroll, the Chief Parole
Officer in Dallas, Draden (Brading) “advised that he
planned to sce Lamar Hunt and other oil speculators while
here." Lamar Tunt is the son of H.L. Hunt, the famous
right-wing oil billionaire.

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Paul Rothermel], a former PBI agent who was Director of
Security for the Hunt Oil Company in Dallas at that. time,
has’ recalled that he distinctly remembers Braden visiting
the Hunt offices on November 21 in the company of three
other men. Rothermel has stated that the office log for
Movember 21 showed that Roger Bauman (Bradind's old Mafia
friend) and Horqan Brown and Duane Nowlin "and friend"
visited the iWunt office on that afternoon. Rothermel states
that Braden was definitely the "friend."

(Security chief Paul Rothermel was later fired by H.L. Hunt's
sons after reports allegedly surfaced that Rothermel was
"suspicious" of a possible Hunt connection to the assassin-
ation. Following his termination by the Iiunts, Rothermel
found that he was being illegally wiretanpped. Rothermel

filed suit acainst Lamar Hunt and another one of H.L. Hunt's
sons, charging them with the wiretapning, and asking for
several million dollars in damages. The suit, which has
produced very damaging cvidence against the Hunt. brothers,

is still in the courts.) ;

Also on Movember 21, the day before the assassination,
according to a conclusion of the Worren Commission, Jack

Ruby was also on his way to the H.L. Munt offices in Dallas.
The Warren Commission concluded that Jack Ruby drove a woman
friend of his to the lMunt offices sometime that same atter-
noon. The woman, who had declined work in Ruby's nightclub

as a stripper, drove with Ruby to the "unt offices, apparantly
in search of omnloyvment. This does coincide with Braden's

isit to the same offices on that same afternoon.

re Warren Commission invastigat ted several other possible.

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inks of Jack Muby to the Uunts, includiagq the still
nexnlained fact that Lamar Hunt's name was found inside

one of Ruby's notebooks. But of these possible links, the
Warron Commission concluded only that evidence did indicate
that Ruby had driven to the Hunt offices on ovember 21.

Thus a possible Nubv-Braden connection on the day before
the President's assassination Goes indeed arise.

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Jim DBraden: Possible Link To David Ferric:

Investigator Peter Noyes has turned up several nieces.
of information which indicate a possible connection between
Jim Braden and the mysterious David Ferric.

David Ferrie was the homosexual airline pilot and private
investiqator whom Jim Garrison accused of participating

in the plot to assassinate President Kennedy. Six days after
District Attorney Garrison's charges were made public, David
Ferrie was found dead in his apartment in sew Orleans, His
mysterious death was Finally ruled to have been a suicide,

David Ferrie has been a target of investication ky critics

of the Warren Commission ever since the assassination, In

fact the FBI and Secret Service both investicated a possible
Ferrie role immediately aftor the assassina ction. It was

widely rumored in Hew Orleans and Dallas that Ferrie was to
have flown the alleaqed assassins out of the country following
the assassination. The Varren Commission decided not to include
the official Secret Service, and FBI reports on Ferrie in the ©
26 Volumes of Hearinas which were released after the Narren
Foport was issued. Nowever, the Justice Penartment did finally
release those .renorts to the National Archives in 1967 following
Garrison's vublic accusations.

Author Moves has since established thak both Jim Braden and

. Davod Ferrie worked out of theyfloor of offices in @ building’
in New Orleans in the month.or two immediately preceding the
assassination.

This is marticularly significant due to tne fact that at that
time the mysterious David Ferrie was cinploved as a private
investicator by Carlos Marcello, the top Hafia kingpin. fit
is widely believed by most federal authoritics that Carlos
Marcello ranks with his close friend Meyer Lanskv as one of
the two sinale nost powerful leaders of the tiafiats national
and international crime syndicate, Carlos Marcello heads the
pees emnire centered in New Orleans, Louisiana, and controls
st of the Hafia activity in the southern part. of the United
Stat COGe

In Septenber and Octohcr of 1963, just weeks before the
assassination, David Ferrie was working out of the offices

of Carlos Narcello's criminal attorney, G. Wrav Gill. Ferrie,
who was doing investigative work on a nerjury charge that his
boss Harcello was then facing, worked out of Room 1707 in the
Pore jiargquette Building in New Orleans.

At this same time, in September.and October of 1963, Jim

Braden was operating out of Room 1701 in the Pere larauette
Building.

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Braden was then commuting hetween Uew Orleans ane

Reverly fiills, with the approval of his Parole Board,
Braden was working as a representative of his Mafia
friend Roger Bauman, the oil speculator. Braden worked
out of Room 1701, which was the ‘office of his associate,
Victor Hain, Jr., an oil geologist. This was just a short
way down the hall from David Ferrie. in Room 1707.

Interestingly, in one visit to his Parole Office, Braden
"mistakenly" told his Parole Officer that he tras working
out of Room. 1706 = which would have heen the roon nex oe
door to Ferrie - instead of Room 1701.

Thus a pos sipte Braden~Ferrie connection in the weeks

just before the assassination does indeed arise in acdition
to the nossible Braden-Ruby connection. Both connections
definitely do seem to fall outside of or beyond the area
“which coule reasonably be attributed to coincidence, chance,
or circumstance,

RPovond several sets of information which tend to indicate
that David Ferric had some contact with Lee Oswald at
various times; the c#itics of the Varren Commission have
particularly focused on Ferrie's ties to Carlos Marcello
and the Marcello Mafia empire.

In fact, in his interviews with the FBI and Secret Service
after the assassination, Ferrie claimed that he was with
Marcello at the very time of the assassination. Ferrie
Stated that he was in court with Marcello on the afternoon
of November 22, which does appear to be truce,

Carlos Harcello, along with Meyer Lansky, had become the
central targets of the Justice Department's Organized |
Crime Division in the early 1960's, under. the vigorous ~
.direction of Attorney General Robert Kennedy.

Marcello, knovn as "he Little Man," became one of Attorney
General Kannedv'is most fierce cnemies curing that period.
Marcello once claimed that he had been kidwanped under orders
‘of Robert Kennedy and the Justice Department.

Ha’ Reid, author of the Greenfelt Junale and widely recognized
as one of the most respected experts on the Mafia in the

nation, nas written that Carlos Marcello once threatened to

have Pre ont Kennedy and his brother murdered. Reid has

written that he was told of Marcello's threat by an informant

who attended a secret meeting with Marcello in New Orleans in
September of 19 62.

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According to Roid's informant, Marcello told his ton
lieutenants, "Don't worry about that little Bobby
-sonofabitch. He's qoing to be taken care of," The
informant stated that Marcello said that President
Kennedy himse])f would have to be killed first, and
that his brother would then follow. The informant
further stated that Marcello spoke of using some “nut"
to do the killinas. ;

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Jim Braden: Author Peter Yoves And Judar Ryrne

Peter Noyes, the investigative reporter who uncovered
-most of the material regarding Jim Braden (iuqene Brading),
is a former classmate and close friend of Judge Matthew
Byrne, Jr., the U.S. District Court Judge who presided

over the Sllsberg Pentagon Pavers trial last year.

As is now well known, Judge Byrne dismissed the case
against ®lilsherd after he vas notified that the White
House "Plumbers" had once burglarized the office of
Ellsberg's psychiatrist. ,

A short time Jater, it became known that Fresident Nixon

had twice instructed John Ehrlichman to approach Judge
Byrne.durina the course of the Ellsbera trial and offer him
the position of Director of the PSI. This offer, which Judge
Byrne refused, has been regarded as a potential act of |
bribery by some critics of President Nixon, and is currently
under investigation by the Soecial Frosecutor's Office.

It has been widely assumed that Nixon's fervent interest’
in the outcome of the prosecution of Ellsbore may. have
been the motivation behind his approach to Judge Byrne.

Author Noves has written of his friend Judge Byrne's
involvement in his research on Jim Braden. In 1969, after
Noyes had accumulated much of his information regarding

the mysterious Braden, he took the information to his
friend, Matt Pyrne, who was then U.S. Attorney for southern
California. Voyes had several talks with Byrne and has said
that Byrne was very impressed by the substantive ovidence
which Moyes had aathered. During one of thesa meetings with
Byrne and another FBI man whom Byrne had invited to attend,
the FRI man told Novos that the FBI had never before known
that Jim Braden = the man arrested at. the scene of the
assasnination in 1963 - was actually “Suqene Erading. the
EBI man said that the Bureau must have made a big mistake
in not tracing down Braden's true identity and police record.
The FRI man was nearly incredulous over Hoves' evidence on
Braden.

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Voyes meanwhile had discovered that Jim Praden had also been
in Los Anceles on the night that Robert Kennedy was assassinated
in early June of 1968.

‘Though Noyes couldn't find any significant information indicating
any Braden connection to the second Kennedy murder, he and his
friend Matt Byrne forwarded the information on Braden to the
Special Unit of the LAPD which was investigating the RPX death.

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The Special Unit of the LAPD, according to Noyes, dis-
counted the information reaarding the RPK assassination,
but was indecd imoressed by the Braden connection to the
19663 assassination. Noyes writes that Judge Byrne never
heard anymore about it after he forwarded the information
to the RFK investigators.

Later, Attorney General John Nitchell slected Byrne to

be Executive Director for the Scranton Commission that
investigated student unrest several years ago. Folloving
his work for the Scranton Commission, U.S. Attorney Byrne --
wag anpointed U.S. District Court Judae by President Uixon,
the position he held at the time of the #llsberg trial.

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Today

Immediately following the assassination of President
Kennedy, ®ugene Brading (Jim Braden) Aad an upturn in
his personal finances,

Brading later reported a large
an O11 well he had an interest
roported the larade inerease in
the month of November 1963.

in revenue from
in Louisiana. He.
~rom the well for --

increases
in back
revenue

© month later, in December of 1°63, Bradina became a
charter monber of the exclusive (and very expensive)

La Costa Country Club in southern California. Later that
year, 1964, Brading and his old svndicate oil friend

Roger Bauman established the "RB And Bicattle Comnany."

The commany, set up in Chicaqe and oresunmably

namec after then, "B And 5," though neither of the two

men are listed as corporate officers. It vas also during
this same neriod that Brading made a substantial investment
in two lots in Coral Gables, Florida.

WAS WoS

In 1°65, Brading's lenathy parole was finally terminated.

‘Ie soon boucdht a new home near the La Costa Country Club
which ne had joined, and he also boucht a house for his
parents in Santa Rarbara.

And it is at the La Costa Country Club that the mysterious

trail of Jim Braden, or Eugene Hale Brading, finally ends.
The La Costa Country Club, which Rracing had joined as one
of its 100 Charter members in January of 1964, is one of
the more notorious ilafia properties in the nation.

most:

rhe nowerful Toree behind La Costa is Noe Dalitz, one

of Hever Lansky's sinerle closest associates. Hoe Dalitz had
lbcen the leader of the early Mayficld Noad Gang in Cleveland,
and nad been the founder of the actual Cleveland syndicate,

one of the most powerful forces in the national crime syndicate.
‘Hoe Dalitz had heon one of the Maflats bigdest investors in

has Vogas, and it had been Dalitz who had pers sonally helned

set up the Uoward Tlughes empire in Las Vacas. Dalitz had

sold much of his own noldings to Howard hu ughes in-the late
1°60's,

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19.

The La Costa Country Club had become, under the direction

of Noe Dalitz and liever Lansky, a key “watering hole" of

the syndicate. La Costa was originally. financed through a

syndicate deal with James Hoffa of the Teamsters. Onc of

the Teamsters Union's billion dollar Pension Funds was used
-in the financing of the project. La Costa became what is

Known in the hMafia as “open territory" ~ meaning that no

Single tNafia fanily controlled it. La Costa was open to all.

Intelligence authorities in southern California have long
regarded La Costa as a.nrime hangout for the Mafia. Some’
officials have dubbed it "“Apalachin West."

The syndicate had oricinally qiven Charter memberships in
La Costa to a numbor of Hollywood celebrities, so as to
soften the image of the plush resort, Amonq the members
were Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, and Bing Crosby.

Members of Prosident Nixon's inner circle also became
frequent quests as La Costa, which is just twenty miles

away from San Clemente. narly in the Sinon Administration,
in 1969, Los angeles Police were astonished to find Murray
Crotiner, one of the President's closest confidantes, living
it up at La Costa while the President was in San Clemente.

In February of 1973, while President Nixon was at’ San Clen-
ente, H.R. Haldeman, John Enrlichman, Richard Moore, and
John Dean held a series of meetings at La Costa to discuss
the Watergate conspiracy, which was then beainning to
unravel.

John Dean dave longthy testimony during the Irvin Committee
hearings reqerding "the La Costa meetings." Vhese meetings

at La Costa have since emerded as perhans the most crucial
strategy seasions involved in the allened cover-un of
Watergate by the Presigent's closest aides. Dean testified
that the La Costa meetines took place over a reriod of to
days, February 19 ~ 12, 1973. Dean testified that the sessions
were held in a srecial villa at La Costa that was used by
tilaldeman.

It has been durina this same period of time, in the last
several vears, that Eucene Brading (Jin Braden) has become
one of the most imnmortant Hafia onoratives at La Costa.
According to numerous intelligence reports, from California,
Novada, and federal authorities, Brading is now suspected of
being the personal courier for national crime syndicate bos

lievyer Lansky : \

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the Meovada Ganmine Board is continuing an investigation
into Bradents alleged role as syndicate courier for
"skimmed" gambling revenue from Las Veaas. Investigator
Noyes was told by several hich government officials that
Jim Praden had indeed been identified as the personal
courier for Mever Lansky. One official disclosed that
Braden was suspected of taking over 572-million out of
the country for the syndicate. Another official said
that was a "low estimate."

In the summer of 1971, Braden came under renewed investi-
gation by California authorities: following an incident at
La Costa.

A janitor at la Costa onaned Braden's aolf Jecker to make
a routine insmection. Sut of the locker tumbled a bundle of
well over $190,009 in cash. ; .

Suthor Vovres vas informed by one official that the bundle
had conteinen at least 3120,090 in cash, and enother Cal-
ifornia official put the amount at closer to $200,000.

During questioning reqarding the incident, "raden stated
that he had received the money from an oil transaction,

and that he had temnorarily stored it in the locker. Later,
one of the officials worltine on that particular investigation
of Braden, told Mewes thet Hraden had also been given the use
of two planes owned bv Howard Hughes to fly Nafia gambling
cash out of Nevada and -the country.

At oresent, Sucene Brading, alias Jin Braden, is still
operating out of La Costa. :

(Braden is how hving in Atlayta

-— Mike Ewing
; Sen, Hughes ottice
7 ; June, 197%

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| a . |. RICHARD L. THORNBUEGH
| . _ -! RE: JKF ASSASSINATION

January 21, 1977

IN REPLY PLEASE
REFER TO Ry gasg

Honorable Richard L. Thornburgh
Acting Attorney General
Department of Justice
Washington, D.C,

Dear General Thornburgh:

The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence would
most appreciate prompt access to Federal Bureau of
Investigation material relating to Mr. Nelson Bunker
Hunt and Mr. Eugene Brading, a/k/a Jim Braden. —

Your assistance and cooperation with the Select
Coumittee. ie most appreciated.

Aloha,

SO DANIEL K. INOUYE, Chairman

HSL/dr: Sty

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| 1‘ subject: matter file
1 - William G. Miller
1 - Michael J. Madigan

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DONALD F. MASSEY
RE: LEE HARVEY O8WALD

December 8, 1976

IN REPLY PLEASE

REFER TO R&5 7€5—

| ‘ir. Donald F. Massey
Assistant Legislative Counsel
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C.

| Dear Don:

As I mentioned briefly this afternoon, the Select.
Committee has expressed an interest in recent press accounts -
suggesting the existenca of transcripts of Lee Harvey
Owvald conversations in Mexico City. I would be pleased
if you would advise as to the existence of such transcripts
and their availability for review vy the Senate Select
Committee.

Thank you in advance for your attention to this
request. |

oe - Sincerely,

HOWARD S$. LIEBENGOOD
i oo Minority Staff Director

USLidr.

- Author File
Subject File
Minority Counsel
Staff Director

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After President John F. Kennedy
~ was struck down on Nov. 22, 1963, the
Central Intelligence Agency received

evidence suggesting that Cuban Pre. . .

_ Inier Fidel Castro arranged the assassi-

nation in retaliation for attempts on:

’ his life.

_ Yet sources privy to the secret dis- |. .

cussions at the highest levels of the
CIA during those hectic days now tell

us that the CIA deliberately withheld ©

‘the evidence from the Warren Com- ~ ;

mission investigating Kennedy's death.
Our sources cite two Teasons for ©

holding back this evidence. One was a

Fresolve to cover up the secret that the.
CIA had enlisted Mafia mobsters to kill -

Castro. :

There also was a legitimate concern
that the Castro revelations might in-
flame the American people, whose
grief could have turned into a terrible
wrath that might. have’ precipitated
-.8omerash action’: = * oO
Only a few key people knew about

the CIA plot to assassinate Castro. One -
was Attorney General Robert F. Ken. -

nedy, who was his brother's personal

watchdog over the CIA. It has now _

been established that Robert Kennedy
was briefed on May 7, 1962, about the

attempt to use underworid killers to!

knock off Castro.

Two days later, Robert Kennedy cau-
tioned the CIA not to go ahead with -

the assassination without consulting

documentary evidence of this.

Records now available show that ..
Robert Kennedy informed FBI chief J. :-
Edgar Hoover of the plot on: May. 10, °

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1962. Yet neither Kennedy nor Hoover”

' later divulged this important informa-:

tion to the Warren Commission. - :
Of course, various CIA officials also

. knew about the assassination scheme.

Not the least of them was the. late CIA

- chief Allen W. Dulles, who approved
lan. He later served on --
Ormmmission, yet he sat: -

the original
the Warren }
silently throughout the investigation

’. without mentioning the Cuban angle. .--
Within hours of President Kenne- °

dy's death, the U.S. embassy cabled ‘in--
formation from Mexico City suggest-

" Ing that the Cubans may have been be-
hind the assassination. Our sources say |
that the CIA developed similar infor- ;

* “mation in Washington.

The first person to reach Robert.

’ Kennedy’s sid

le after the shooting was
CIA Director John A. McCone, who re-
mained alone with the Attorney Gen-

eral at his McLean, Va., home for -—

nearly three hours.

McCone swore to us that Castro's
name was never mentioned during the
three hours. But CIA records show
that the next day McCone not only
mentioned Castro to the new Presi-
dent, Lyndon B. Johnson, but briefed

: him on the information from Mexico .
ity.

Yet no one brought the Cuban -
connection to the attention of the War-

. Ten Commission. We were the first to-
him. Since Robert Kennedy rode herd <
on the CIA, it must be assumed that he :

was kept advised of subsequent assassi-...-:
nation attempts. However, there is-no.--

get word of the anti-Castro plot, to

Chief Justice Earl Warren, the com: ..

mission chairman, four years later. :

We are now free to reveal our role
in the drama. Two of our confidential
sources, CIA agent William Harvey

‘and mobster John Rosselli, are dead. A

third source, attorney Edward P. Mor. .

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Morgan told us in January,- 1967, #

about the CIA-Mafia assassination plot, 2: .
against Castro. He raised the possibil~#:
ity that the plot could have backfired, 7:
_ against President Kennedy. There 9

were suspicious circumstances, . he

. pointed out, indicating that Castro @
may have learned of the attempts on 9
, his life ‘and may have retaliated |

against Kennedy.
Morgan refused to
sources because it would have violated

the attorney-client privilege. But hep
was an attorney of such stature that 4.
we didn’t doubt his word. He had been .j -
- chief inspector of the FBI. He had di:
rected the historic congressional inves- #
“. tigation of the Pearl Harbor bombing. § -

Later, he ran the investigation into the §

_ Oxcesses of the late Sen. Joseph McCar:, q

thy. . a:
We got Morgan's permission, to

" write a cautious story. We confirmed

the general outlines from a CIA
Source. Then on March 3, 1967, we

‘wrote that Robert Kennedy “may have
‘approved an assassination plot, which

then possibly backfired against his late -

brother.”

The next day, according to records §

now available, Kennedy's secretary. :.

called for a copy of the May 7, 1962,..

memo, which summarized the briefing |- :
he had received on the assassination ].-
plot. : E

On March 7, 1967, we reported more -§

details. “A reported CIA plan in 1963 to |
assassinate Cuba's Fidel Castro,” we. €
wrote, “... may have resulted in ag
counterplot by Castra to assassinate §
President Kennedy.” aa

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The Washington Post
August 22, 1976

Slain Mobster Claimed

Cuban Link te JFK Death

. By Ronald Kessler and Laurence Stern
Washington Post Staff Writers

Long before his recent murder,
_John Rosselli. the CIA's underworld
recruit in attempts to kill Fidel Cas-
‘tro, had been privately claiming that
agents of the Cuban premier, im retali-
‘ation, were involved in the asSassina-
_tion of President John F. Kennedy.

Rosselli's belief in a Cuban connec-
tion to the Kennedy assassination was
‘expressed through his attorney, Ed-
ward P. Morgan, to the FBI as long
ago as March, 1967, and alsa in private -
. conversations with a longtime associ-
ate of Rosselli who participated in
‘meetings between Rosselli ‘and the
CIA, ’ ;

An FBI “blind memorandum” on
an interview with Morgan dated
March 21, 1967, was included, without

_identification of the interviewee, in.
last June’s Senate Intelligence Com.°

mittee's report on the role of the in-
telligence community in the Kennedy
assassination investigation. :
Morgan told the FBI that Rosselli
and another Morgan client had in-

formed him that Castro became aware —

of CIA assassination conspiracies

against him and “thereafter employed ° .

teams of individuals who were dis-
' patched to the. United States for the ©
purpose of assassinating . Mr. Ken-
nedy.”

Because neither Morgan nor Ros-

' selli was identified in the Senate re--
- port, the significance of that portion ¢
“of the 106-page document was dlis- .

‘counted at the. time it was published
in June, before Rosselli’s disappear-

ance and the subsequent discovery of
his body in an oil drum in Florida
waters. The Washington Post, however,
has confirmed that Morgan and Rosselli
_ were the sources of the testimony that
suggested a Cuban role in the Ken-
nedy murder.
Morgan's account, according. to a
summary of the FBI interview, was
that Rosselli had reached his conclu-

sion about a Cuban connection to the

Kennedy assassination from

“feedback” furnished by sources close ©

to Castro who were involved in the CIA
plots to assassinate the Cuban leader.

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“Tis (Morgan's) clienls were aware
of the identity of some of the individ-
uals who came to the United States
for this purpose and he understood
that two such individuals were now in
the state of New Jersey,” the FBI in-

_terview summary stated. i

A long-time associate. of Rosselli:

who was .interviewed separately ~ by
: The Washington Fost, said there was

‘no question in the slain mobster’s

:mind that President Kennedy was..
‘killed on Castro’s behalf in reprisal

for the CIA schemes against the Cu-

_ ban leader. ©

_“He was positive; he was sure,” said
the associate, who knew Rosselli well

_and was in contact with him before
. Rosselli disappeared from his Florida
‘home on July 28. The associate, who
: does not want to be identified pub-

jHely, is scheduled to be interviewed
: this week by Dade County, Fla., homi-

: cide detectives. He was a party to Ros-

“selli’s contacts in the early 1960s with
“CIA case officers overseeing the at-

tempts to assassinate Castro.

Despite occasional speculation, the .

collective conclusion of all official
U.S. government investigations into
the Kennedy assassination—including

‘the Warren Commission, the FBI and

the CIA—has been that there was no
evidence’ that implicated the Castro

- government or any of its agents.
: | However, the CIA’s inyolvement in

_the schemes to assassinate - Castro
was not divulged to the Warrén Com-
mission, and knowledge of them was
confined until 1967 to a small, elite
circle of the U. ‘S. intelligence commu-

‘nity.’ President Johnson apparently

‘first learned about the schemes only

after a March 7. 1967, column by the

‘late Drew Person, which prompted
‘Johnson to order a CIA investigation
-of the highly sensitive episode.” ot

Full details of the CIA- underworld

“collusion in the plots to kili Castro .*

-did not surface publicly until the pub-
‘lication Jast year of the Senate Intelli-

‘gence Committee's assassination re”

“port and the ensuing report last dune

on the possible role of the intelligence

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‘of Rosselli,

agencies in the Kennedy assassination |

and investigation. ,
The body of Rosselli, who lived
flamboyantly in a world of mobsters,
politicians and playgiris, was found
two weeks ago in an inverted oil drum

-weighted with chains but buoyed by ~
‘gases from decomposition on the
‘ecean’s surface off the coast of Miami,
The specific cause of death was deter- -
mined by an autopsy to be asphyxia-

tion.

Last. year, an underworld colleague
Sam (Momo) Giancana,
who also had been recruited by the

CIA in the effort to kill Castro, was .
found shot to death in his Chicago
‘home in what police described as a,

highly professional job by assailants’

who penetrated the mobster's per-
‘sonal security screen. Giancana was

due to testify before the Senate Intel--

‘ligence Committee shortly after his.
“demise.

Neither murder Ras been solved.

The possibility that Rosselli’s mur-
der might have been related to his
Senate testimony on the CIA schenies
to kill Castro has brought the FBI
into the investigation at the request
of Attorney General Edward H. Levi.

The involvement of Rosselli. Gian-
cana and other underworld figures—
principally Santos
Tampa, Fla., whose one-time Havana

gambling enterprises fell hostage in.

1959 Lo the Cuban revoiution—in plots
against Castro had been a elosely held
secret within the top echelons of the
CIA and FBI until recently.

The tangled chronology of suppres
sion and eventual disclosure, although
detailed in the June report, has re-
ceived little public attention. Rossel-
li's murder adds significance to those

events.

Here is the sequence, pieced: to-
ether from the testimony given to

‘Senate intelligence investigators: .
Columnist Drew Pearson went to

the late Chief Justice of the United
States Earl Warren late in January,”
1967, and told him that a Washington.
jJawyer had confided to him that one-

of his clients said the United States
“had attempted to assassinate Fidel
Castro in the early 1960s and Castro
had decided to retaliate.”

Warren declined Pearson’s sugges- -

tion that he see the lawyer, who was
Edward Morgan. Warren referred the

matter to then Secret Service Direc-

tor James J. Rowley, who on Feb. 13,
1967, wrote FBI Director J. Edgar Ho-

over, informing him of the allegations. -

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Trafficante of  °

» Hoover scut the Rowley letter to six
senior bureau officials on an “eyes-

-only” basis. There is no record of FBI

meetings or discussions of those aile-
gations, At that point the sensitive let-
ter bounced back and forth’in the
higher reaches of the FBI bureauc-
racy.

The job of responding to Rowley’s
letter was assigned to the supervisor
of the FBI’s General Investigative Di-
vision who was given responsiility for

. the overall assassination investigation

in March 1964.
’ This official’s job was complicated’
by the fact that he had never been in-

. formed of what Hoover and his closest

» early in

“cirele of confidants in the FBI learned
i9s2—that the. CIA was’

deeply involved. in assassination

_-attempts against Castro, and promi-

nent American underworld figures, in-
cluding Rosselli and Giancana, had

been recruited for the attempts.

So on Feb, 15, 1967, the FBI official

° prepared a draft reply to the Rowley’

. Cuban Coveryment were

> letter for his superiors saying “our in-’

vestigation uncovered no evidence in-’
dicating Fidel Castro officials of the
involved

‘.with- Lee Harvey Oswald in the assas-

sination of President Kennedy. This

‘bureau is not conducting,any investi-

gation regarding this matter.” The
¥BI official added in later testimony
‘that “every one. in:the higher echelons

: read this .

Drew Pearson went ahead and pub-

” lished a column on March 7, 1967, ref-

erring to reports that CIA schemes
against Castro’s life in 1963 “may
have resulted in a counterptot by Cas-
tro to assassinate President Kenne-
dy.”

Ten days later, Marvin Watson, one

_ of Lyndon Johnson’s chief deputies,

. called FBI assistant director Cartha

DeLoach with the message that “the

President had instructed that the FBI.

interview (Morgan) concerning any
knowledge he might: have regarding.

the assassination of. President Ken.
nedy. \
. DeLoach told. Watson that it ap-
peared Morgan “did not want to be in-

terviewed, and even if he was inter-
wwiewed he would probably not divulge
the identity of his sources...” Wat
son persisted, however.

“Under the circumstances,” De-

Leach concluded in. a memo for the.

files, “it appears that we have no al-
ternative: but to interview (Morgan)

ae

and then furnish the results to Wat. :

son in blind memorandum form.”

The interview was assigned to two
agents from the FBI's General Investi-
gative Division, which the Senate

_ committee concluded was “puzzling”

because it was the Domestic Intelli-
gence Division which had been as-
signed responsibility for investigating
possible foreign involvement in the
assassination.

Neither agent was privy to the
knowledge, confined to Hoover and
his top aides, of the CIA’s assassina-
tion plots against Castre. Both agents
testified eight years later that they
were “surprised” when Morgan al-
luded during the interview to U.S. at-
tempts to assassinate Castro.

“These agents stated that they
could not evaluate the lawyer’s
‘(Morgan’s) allegations or question him
in detail on them, since they had not
been briefed on the CIA assassination
efforts,” the Senate committee ob-
served.

'. On March 21, 1967, the FBI’s Wash-

ington Field Office sent headquarters
ten copies of a blind memorandum .-
summarizing the interview with Mor-
gan..

In a Senate Intelligence Committee
summary of the FBI interview, Mor-
gan was reported to“ have acknowl- ,
edged that his clients. were “on the
fringe of the underworld” and that
they faced “possible prosecution in a
crime not related'to the assassination

wm. . .
Morgan said his clients “were called
upon by a governmental agency to as-
sist in a project which was said to
have the highest governmental ap-
proval. The project had as its purpose
the assassination of Fidel Castro.
Elaborate plans were made, includjng

_ the infiltration of the Cuban Govern-

ment and the placing of informants
within key posts in Cuba.”

Morgan also told the FBI, according
to the summary, that Castro had em-
ploved “teams ‘of individuals who

-were dispatched to the United States -

for the purpose of assassinating Presi,

ident Kennedy.”

It was not ‘clear then—-nor is it toe
day—why Morgan. came forward at ~
that time to bring’ Rosselli’s story .to
the ears of the nation’s highest law
enforcement authorities.

It may be relevant that Rosselli had
‘serious legal problems at the time.

In May, 1966, the FBI. threatened to
deport him for living in the United’

- States under an assumed name unless

he cooperated in an investigation of
the Mafia (his true name was Filippo
Saco). At the time, he readied a CIA
contact from the anti-Castro conspir-

_acy days, CIA security director Col.-

Sheffield Edwards, who informed the

FBI that Rosselli wanted’ to “keep
square with the bureay” but
afraid Uhat the mob might kill: him for
talking.
In 1967, after he was arrested ‘for
gambling fraud at the Friars Club‘ in

Beverly Hills, RoSselli approached his —

former CIA case-officer, William Har-
vey. who sought unsuccessfully jo ‘ine
tercede in the prosecution.

twas against this background that .
Morgan went, first to Drew Pearson, “

and then the FBI, with Rossélli’s sen-
sational allegations of CIA plotting
against Castre and the Cuban counter-

espionage directed against ‘President a

Kennedy.

Last April: Rosselli told: ‘the Senate: :

Intelligence Committee he had no rec-

_ollection. of either receiving informa- “:

‘tion that Castro’ retaliated against
President Kennedy or of: having dis-
cussed it with Morgan. This meant ei-

ther that Rosselli suffered a dramatic -

memory loss or that Morgan's state-
ment to FBI agents nine years.earlier
was a pure invention, a Serious risk
-for an established Washington lawyer.

No committee source could explain
the discrepancy, and Morgan declined
to confirm that Rosselli was the client
‘in question or to discuss either his
Allegations against the Cuban govern-
ment or his recent testimony.

The internal FBI memo on the 1967
interview with Morgan was sent, to
headquarters with a transmittal slip
saying: “No further investigation is
being conducted by the Washington
field office unless it is advised to the
contrary by the Bureau.”

The Senate intelligence committee,
in’ commenting on this position, said
that “had the interviewing agerits
known of the ClA-underworld plots
against Castro, they would have been

aware that the lawyer had clients who.

had been active in _the assassination
plots.”

On March 21, FBI headquarters for-
warded the Washington field office
memo to the White House, the attor-
ney general and the Secret Service.:It
did. not recommend any further in-
vestigation of Morgan’s allegations.

On the evening of. the following
day, President Johnson called CIA Di-
rector Richard M. Helms to‘the White

louse. The next morning; March 23,-

Helms ordered the CIA inspector gen- ;
eral to prepare a report on the CIA:
involvement in the assassination plots

—Operation . Mongoose—of which :
Helms had full knowledge at. the time
they were executed.’ /

By May 22, Helms briefed President;
Johnson on the results.. There is, how-:

ever, no evidence that Helms briefed;

the President on the November, 1963,
plot—one of eight major schemes on:

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Castro’ 8 life from 1960 to- '1965—to as-
sassinate the Cuban leader through
the employnient of an agent with the
‘eryptonymn AMLASH. His identity
was revealed as Rolando Cubela. a
1961 CIA “recruit” with close access
to Castro.

CIA operatives turned over assassi-
nation‘ equipment to Cubela during a

7 Paris meeting on November 22, 1963-—.

the day President Kennedy was killed
, in Dallas. There has been subsequent
speculation that’ the mercurial and
talkative \Cubela was either a double:
agent or ‘peing, monitored by Cuban
“intelligence. |

‘dency, Mr. Johnson. spoké cryptically

‘ rated” targeted ‘against Fidel Castro.

1, eral’s report he ordered, Helms to. -have

! prepared.

- i. Within the past year, Rosselli’ and
, two of his co-conspirators in the Cas-
* tro assassination schemes have died,
‘ Giancana at the hands of a profes-
* sional hit man and Harvey as the re-
sult of a “massive heart attack” last
June.

Mrs. William Harvey. the widow of
“the deceased CIA / official, said she
‘suspected no foul play in her hus-

band’s death. She did, however, tell.

“The Washington Post that she re-
ceived a call after Rosselli’s disappear-
ance in fate July warning her that Cu-
bans appeared to be attempting to
wipe out all those who participated in
the anti-Castro plots.

The call, she said, came from an old

friend who was acquainted with Ros-
selli's sister, whose name is Edith Dai-
gle. Mrs, Harvey said that Mrs. Daigle
told the mutual acquaintance that the
Rosselli family had received a tele-
phone threat from unidentified Cu-
_ bans prior to Rosselli's disappearance.
:. She also said that Rosselli had gone to
‘meet the Cubans in an effort to pro-
» tect his family. to

Mrs. Daigle could not be reached by

The Washington Post. But another sis-
ter of Rosselli said she had heard of

. no such threats or warnings.

Harvey, who died at age 60 and

“whose exploits as a clandestine opera-

_ tor are both legéndary and controver-
i sial within the agency, testified to the
Senate Intelligence Committee.
had become Rosselli’s case officer in .
Operation Mongoose and supplied the

\ mobster with poison ‘pills, explosives,

detonators, rifles, handguns, radios |

i and boat radar for transmission to |.

_ anti-Castro Cuban agents. Harvey and

““ Rosselli,.a CIA superior testified to
_ the Senate committee, “developed ac
’ close friendship.” s :

- was identified by the
_ sion as Kennedy's mufdeérer, had trav-
* eled to Mexico City’in an attempt to

During the later days: of his presi-*.
_of a “Caribbean Murder Incorpo- _

- The inspiration for. that statement un-,’
» doubtedly was the CIA inspector gen- :

He ~

Another CIA official who worked
with Rosselli, James'P. O'Connell, was
asked if he knew whether the agency

. transmitted information ! to the mob-

ster on possible Cuban involvement in

‘the Kennedy assassination. He replied

that he was out of the dountry at the
time Kennedy was killed, and had no

“ further comment.
' , Two months before the Kennedy as-

sassination, Lee Harvey Oswald, who.
We ren Commis-

gain entry to Cuba. According to the

. Warren Commission, Oswald repre-

sented himself as the head of the New
Orleans branch of the Fair Play for

’ Cuba organization and a friend of the
, Cuban Revolution.

Some three months before Kennedy
was killed, Castro told Associated
Press reporter Daniel Harker that
U.S. leaders aiding terrorist plans to
eliminate Cuban leaders would them-

. selves not be.safe..:

A U.S. government committee coor-
dinating policy toward Cuba-at the
time agreed there is a strong liklihood
that Castro would retaliate in some
fashion. However, it concluded Castro
would not risk a major confrontation
with the US. by attacking U.S. lead-
ers.

On the same day Kennedy was as-
sassinated, a CLA officer met with a
high-ranking’ Cuban official, who had
Said he would kill Castro, to tell him
the U.S. would provide him with ex-
plosives and a poison pen device.

While the Senate Intelligence Com-
mittee said it found no evidence suffi- -
cient to justify a conclusion that the
Kennedy assassination was part of a
conspiracy, it also said U.S. ‘agencies
did not properly investigate the assas-
sination .or tell the Warren Commis-
hen about the CIA plots on Castro’s
ife

“There is no indication that the FBI
or the CIA directed the interviewing
of Cuban sources or sources within
the Cuban exile community,” the Sen-
ate committee said.

According to a former FBI official
in charge of key aspects of the FBI's
probe of the Kennedy murder, the
FBI never satisfactorily determined
what Oswald planned to do in Cuba or
what he had done in Russia.

¢

THE WASHINGTON POST

September 12, 1976

{llon ‘rye

The JEK .

Assassination:

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_

{

~An inquisitive American learns many things on a
visit to Cuba. One of the most surprising is that high
officials in Havana seem genuinely hopeful that the
investigation of the Kennedy assassination will be re-
opened. They are convinced that there was a Cuban

factor in the murder. . : .
_ ‘Conversations with senior officials of the Cuban.
government, including Deputy Prime Minister Carlos.
Rafael Rodriguez, make clear that they have followed
closely the disclosures by the Senate Intelligence

Committee casting doubt upon the Warren Commis-. -

sion investigation. The Cubans are well aware that the
doubts center on the failure of the CLA and the FBI to
inform the Warren Commission of the several plots
mounted by the CIA to kill Fidel Castro. Knowledge
of these plots appears to have been withheld even
from the FBI and CIA officials who were responsible.
for investigating the President’s murder and for. sup-
porting the work of the Warren Commission. As a re-
sult, there was no special effort to explore the possi-
ble involvement of either the Cuban government or.
Cuban exiles in the assassination. Evidence developed.
by the Senate committee makes both hypotheses plau-
sible—and a new inquiry imperative. — So

The situation is murkier and more perplexing than .
ever. Those'who are resistant to conspiracy theories -
‘and who have been prepared—even eager —to be-

lieve that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone can no _
longer rely on the Warren Commission report as,an .

Soy

“The writer is a senior fellow of the Council on.For-

- ign Relations. "2. Po

4

adequate prop for their predilections. The commis-,
sion did not know that on Nov. 22, 1963, at about the’
very hour Oswald struck in Dallas, an agent of the’
Central Intelligence Agency was meeting with a rank-
ing Cuban official (codenamed AMLASH and re;
cently identified as Rolando Cubela) to plan the mur-:
der of Castro. Simultaneously, in Cuba, a French re-;
porter, Jean Daniel, was spending the day with Cas-
tro, conveying to the Cuban leader views expressed“
by President Neagedy in a brief interview at the:
White House on Oct. 24, persuading Castro that Ken-:
nedy wanted to explore ways to normalize relations.
. Thus, at the moment the President was killed, U.S.
policy. toward Cuba appeared to be moving not only.
on two tracks but in opposite directions, and move.

ment on either track could have provoked violent re-

_ Sponse by one or another Cuban faction. © |

Perceptions inside the Cuban government re-
‘sponded to both tendencies in U.S. policy. There is
good reason to suspect that the AMLASH operation
involved a double agent, or at least a singularly inept

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Curiosity.in Havana

one. Castro almost certainly knew of it. The CIA even-

s tually concluded that the AMLASH activity was “inse-

cure" and terminated it. Among other discoveries,
within two days of the assassination it was known (but ,
not to the Warren Commission) that AMLASH had-

_ been in contact with Soviet personnel in Mexico City, ;

where Oswald had gone in September 1963 to visit

both the Cuban and Soviet consulates. Whether these __

facts are significant or merely coincidental, one can-
not tell. In retrospect, Cuban authorities note with |

~_ ‘some relief that Oswald was denied permission to visit
». Cuba, implying that, had his request been granted,

‘the finger of suspicion would surely have, pointed at.

. Havana’

Perhaps more suggestive of a direct leak from AM:.
. LASH to Castro was the sequence of events on Sept.7, .
1963, when the CIA re-established contact with the Cu-
ban conspirator for the first time since the preceding ©
‘ year. Late that evening, Prime Minister Castro called |
in Associated Press reporter Daniel Harker for an un-
expected interview. Only three: Western reporters.
were based in Havana at the time and their contact
with Castro was quite limited. Evidently, the Cuban
_leader had a message he wished to get on the record.
through Harker. He charged that the United States
, was aiding terrorist plots in Cuba and warned US..
‘leaders that “if they are aiding terrorist plans to elimi-
‘nate Cuban leaders, they themselves will not be safe.”
_ This threat of reprisals seems less inflammatory
and more understandable now that we know what
‘Castro knew at the time, namely, that the United
States was in fact stepping up its covert operations
_ against Cuba during the summer and fall of 1963. Yet -
_it seems an exception to the main lines of Cuban pol-.
icy as it was then evolving. OO
: For months afer the missile crisis of 1962, Castro ~
;had been displeased with the Soviets, and there are
:Signs that he was interested in an opening to Wash-
ington. On Sept. 5, the. Cubans quietly proposed.talks.
;with the Americans at the United Nations,:and Ken-;2
*nedy soon responded with interest: Also, in early Sep- 3
tember the Time magazine bureau chief in Buenos ~
‘Aires, Gavin Scott, travelling on a Canadian passport, ©
Spent two weeks in Cuba. Although key U.S. officials
have no recollection of consulting with Scott on that :
occasion, the Cubans recall his questions and com- .
ments as hinting of American interest in a-possible ace
commedation, much.as they were‘later to interpret .
the discussions between Jean Daniel and Castro, |.
Then and now the Cubans’ attitude toward Ken- ;
nedy has been a compound of political antipathy and,
personal admiration. While critical of Kennedy's role :
in varlous counter-revolutionary efforts, Castro and -
his associates voice a warm, almost affectionate re-.
gard for the President's courage and realism. They

XL

profess to have seen his death as a grave setback to 4
more hopeful relations between the two countries.
The John Kennedy of 1963 was not, in their judgment,.,
the same man who was inaugurated in 1961, but a’
‘more mature, poised and forward-looking leader with! i
whom they could have done business. ;
With this frame of reference, Cuban officials specu-
_late that the real origin of the assassination lies in an-.
ti-Castro circles, with which Oswald also was in touch.
They emphasize that assassination is incompatible’
with their own revolutionary doctrine and that they
_ hever contemplated it even against Batista, the pre-.
vious Cuban ruler. And they volunteer the suspicion 4
that the recent murders of Sam Giancana and Johnny -
Rosselli, the Mafia figures who consorted with the .
CIA to kill Castro, surely have some connection with
Cuban exile politics and the Kennedy murder.

“Castro has said publicly that he has no proof “count: |

 er-revolutionary elements” planned the assassination,?

- but that is clearly the consensus in Havana. Further

investigation. may still be inconclusive, but, far from’ -

: seeing it as an impediment to Cuban-American rela-

. tlons, the Castro regimé welcomes such an inquiry.
“Their curiosity seems greater than their complicity.

Pat

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The Miami Hérald

September 19, 1976

Could Rosselli Have Linked.
Castro Plot to JFK Death? —

By RON LaBRECQUE —

Harald Staff Wrifer

In 1960, when the CIA was try-

‘ing to set up a delicate attempt on
_the life of Fidel Castro, it turned to

aman once described as “the big-

“gest flag-waving SOB in the coun-
‘try” — West Coast underworld
‘figure Johnny Rosselli.

Rosselli —- a seemingly improba-

:ble conspirator in a government
“plot — got the ‘‘flag-waving" label
.from Salvatore (Momo) Giancdana,
‘then Chicago’s top crime boss and

a man Rosselli brought into that

“same plot.

Now both are dead, murdered in
the past year, and investigators are
wondering whether their plotting
led to their deaths and whether the
CIA plots against Castro — only
recently made public and even kept
from the Warren Commission —

are vitai clues to the John F. Ken- :

nedy assassination.
The aeaths of Giancana, in June

of 1975, and Rosselli, this summer, -

have aroused @ renewed concern in

Washington, where on Friday the

House of Representives voted to re-
open the investigation of the Ken-
nedy murder.

REP. THOMAS N. Downing (D.,
Va.), who will be chairman of the,
panel, said he is “convinced"-a con-'
Spiracy was involved-in ‘Kennedy’s:
death.

Now, in the aftermath of the vi-,
‘olent deaths of Giancana and Ros-:
_selli, the question arises of what

role, if -any, the. Kennedy White
House played in the early 1960s
“deal” the CIA made with the two

underworld figures to have Castro.

murdered.

Whether “the Kennedy~ White’,
House knew ‘about about the. CIA's
plotting (Robert F. Kennedy found -
out after the contacts were ended),
the CIA’s use of the underworld

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‘seems ironic in retrospect.

+’ Robert Kennedy's passionate ef-
forts to disable organized crime are
well documented.

IN 1960 when Robert Kennedy ©

wrote about what he had learned
of organized crime in America
from his years as chief counsel to.
the Senate Rackets Committee, he

-too quoted Giancana to make a

point. :

He told about Giancana’s inter
view at his local draft board at the
outbreak of World War If, when
he was asked what he did for a live
in
: er steal,” Giancana is said to
hhave replied. —~
i So Sam Giancana didn’t go to
‘war and years later would boast to
‘Chicago reporter Sandy Smith that
‘he stayed out of the Army — la-
‘beled unfit — by telling the truth.

} “What's wrong with the syndi-
cate?” Kennedy, quoted Giancana.
“Two or three of us get together
‘on a business deal and everybody

wsays it’s a bad thing. Businessmen

ido it all the time and nobody
‘squawks:”

A Senate committee began stu:
laying the Kennedy. questions more
than a year apo as it looked at co-
ivert CIA activides.

+ IN AN addendum to the Senate
‘Intelligence Committee's interim
report last November, Sen. Howard
\Baker (R., Tenn.) said, “It is my
‘personal view that on balance the
dikelihood that presidents (the re-
‘port deait with Dwight Eisenhower
and Kennedy) knew of the (Castro)
assassination plots is greater than

, the likelihood that they did not.”

dust to trace Rosseili's history
with the CIA is mind- boggling for
the investightors. Yet, it is just one
‘aspect of the search for his killer.
- Johnny Rosselli — born on the
fourth of July in Esperia, Italy, and
71 when he died — was not first
‘and foremost a CIA operative.

* His greater role as. evidenced by .
two convictions, his associations
and to some extent his own com-
ments, was as an influential, if
publicly lesser known, organized.
grime figure,

a * HIS ASSOCIATION with other:
identified underworld members -

_ Was monitored by law enforcement

agencies as recently as several-
weeks before “his July 28 disap
pearance. ‘

By all accounts, Rosselli was a+
‘charming man, dressing in expen- .
isive clothes, married for only two°
fyears in the early 1940s and
iknown most of his life as one who :
jeasify attracted women.

t He was an-immigrant who told
lin a short autubiography written ~
‘about 1967 that his “life of crime” ;
ibegan as a teenager in Boston, at- °
‘tempting arson for his stepfather

wind. stealing $50 on his own. As he~
fraveled west, finally to settle in.
‘California, his attention turned to +
ibootlegging, gambling and dab-
pling in the movie business.

t IT IS said that Rosselli’ guarded ,
jthe West Coast gambling interests .

‘for Giancana’s Chicago syndicate.

? Why Rosselli was chosen by the
(CIA for a Castro plot in 1960 is un-
clear, although CIA officials have
‘since testified that they wanted the -
‘kind of contacts in Cuba which or-
‘ganized crime had made during the
spre- Castro days when Havana was
‘a. gamblers’ haven.’

! Giancana was enlisted by Rossel-
i because he had influence with -
Florida’s Santo Trafficante, consid- ‘
ered the key underworld gambling
figure in Havana.

; The unraveling of CIA and un- ‘
derworld conspiracies, an awesome .,
web spanning decades, is left to a
team of nine in the Metro Homicide
Division. It is a team now clearly
consumed by the task which has
been a‘ full-time operation since .
Rosselli's body was pulled from ©
Dumfoundling Bay on Aug. 7.

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'. THAT THE Metro team is even
Involved is happenstance. Rosselli .
lived in Plantation, Broward Coun-
ty. with his sister and brother-in-
law. It's just that his killers chose
to dump his body in Dade.

While. several - detéctives say
their instincts lead them to con- -
clude that the Rosselli murder was ~
an internal underworld affair, all «
on the team are aware of the pres- |
sure on them to search each clue -
that leads back to the CIA-Castro
affair. :

, With Rosselli’s death this sum-
mer, the newly appointed Senate
; committee saw its list of knowl-
edgeable witnesses further trim-
med. Some of those witnesses have
died violently and some from natu-
ral causes.

« When Giancana was murdered in
June of 1975, before he could even
be questioned by the committee
staff, authorities attributed it to an
internal gangland struggle — even
though. the murderer is still un-
known. |

The death of Rosselli, who had
appeared before the committee
three times in the past year with-~-
out immunity, caused greater con-

cern on Capitol Hill, -

THE SAME night Rosselli’s body
was identified — the legs hacked
off and stuffed along with the body

‘into an oil drum — Baker, vice
chairman of the Senate Intelligence
Committee, called for the FBI to
‘get involved in the case. (Several
days later, Attorney General Ed-
ward Levi ordered FBI involve-
ment.)

It wasn't until several weeks
later, however, that what was
known to Baker became public
knowledge.

A section of the former commit-
tee’s April report told of a Wash-
ington attorney who in 1967 went.
to Supreme Court Chief Justice
Earl Warren (chairman of the:
then-disbanded Warren Commis- .
sion) to say that two’of his Clients |
believed they knew about Cuban.
‘agents in the United States who.

conspired in the assassination of °

. John F. Kennedy, -
THE INFORMATION: eventually

-reached the FBI, but as the Senate.
committee concluded this year, the ©
1967 FBI probe was slipshod and

incomplete.
One of the clients referred to in,

the report has since been identified”
_as Rosselli. And it has since ‘been
Jearned that Rosselli was con-
vinced he held a vital clue to the

JFK murder.

Page 405

“There was never the slightest
doubt in John’s mind that Castro

was responsible for the assassina-.

tion of Kennedy,” said Edward P.

Morgan, the attorney referred to in

the report.
Morgan is an attorney of no
mean stature in Washington. He

“served as chief counsel to the joint

congressional committee which
studied the Pearl Harbor attack,
counsel to the Senate Foreign Rela-
tions Committee and for seven
years was chief inspector of the
BI. .

ROSSELLI told Morgan about

-the CIA plot in 1967, when the De-'

partment of Justice was vigorously
attempting to deport Rosselli for
being an illegal alien.

Rosselli, Morgan said, “was cer- .
tain that the people he (Rosselli). °

put around Castro in the CIA plot
turned right around and killed Ken-
nedy. The people he still knew (in
1967) did it.”

Rosselli, according to Morgan,.
decided to talk about his CIA activ- .

ity in hopes of decreasing the pres-

. Sure from the FBI and Department .

of Naturalization and Immigration,.
both Justice Department agencies.
Several friends of Rosselli, in-

cluding Morgan, say they are con- .

‘vinced the FBI tried to get Rosselli
to become’ an organized crime. in-

formant by threatening to have-
him deported if he ‘didn’t soopera- .

te.

IN 1961, through a bungled_
. wiretap “effort, the FBI° became:
aware of Rosselli's CIA activities. —

‘While Giancana and Rosselli:
were in Florida planning the opera-
‘tion, Giancana wanted to return to
Las Vegas to check on his girl
friend, Phyllis McGuire, whom he
suspected’ of dating comedian Dan
Rowan. To keep Giancana in. Flori-
da, it was agreed that a bug would
be placed in her hotel room and her
conversations monitored.

“But the private detective they
hired, with CIA money. it has since
been learned, was discovered and

arrested. Eventually the police in- ;
vestigation led back to the Castro |
_ plotters. ‘

Prosecution was avoided when’
the CIA intervened and said the
“national interest’? would be dam-
_aged if the plot information be-
“ came public.

"WHEN THE wiretap case was
again to be investigated in 1966,
this time by a Senate committee
headed by the late Sen. Edward
Long (D., Mo.), the CIA again step-
ped in to stop it.

Morgan was told about the pend-
ing investigation by Rosselli and
Robert Mahue, a former FBI
agent-turned Howard Hughes aide
who was the CIA's. initial link to

. Rosselli.

Mahue told Morgan that both he
and Rosselli had been subpenaed to.
appear before the committee. Mor-:
gan said he called Lawrence Hous-:
ton, the CIA general counsel. Hous- .
ton went to Long and the investi-.
gation was dropped. .

. MORGAN SAID he knew, as the
Senate committee recently empha--
sized as well, that all information.
-about the CIA plots — which could’
have been the incentive for pro-*
Castro forces to kill Kennedy —-
had been kept from the Warren:
‘Commission.

“I-was an admirer of Earl War--
ren,” Morgan said. “(His) report:
said that ... Oswald alone killed.
Kennedy. It kept bugging me after -
so gruesome a detail from Rosselli
that the Chief Justice could put his
name on a report which didn't as-
sess the ‘most significant piece of
evidence bearing on the killing of
Kennedy.” -

The information Morgan had
was passed to Warren via colum-

nist Drew Pearson, a mutual
friend. Eventually, it reached the-
FBI, but, remarkably, even after di-
rect orders from President Lyndon
Johnson in the spriig of 1967, in-
vestigation was not vigorously pur.
sued.’

THE SENATE Intelligence Com-.
mittee compared that apparent. in-
action with a statement former FBI
director J. Edgar Hoover made to

: the Warren Commission on May 5, .
1964. Hoover said, ‘well, I can as-
- sure. you so far as the FBI is con-.
cerned the case will be continued:
in) an open classification for. all-
‘time. That is, any information com-
ing to us or any report coming to:

‘us from any source will be thor--
_ oughly investigated, so that we

Twill be “able"to prove or “disprovel
>the allegation.” By

A Senate Committee staff mem“.
ber commented recently, “what is
“really happening is that the investi-
gation which the FBI should have
done in 1967 — and no one can
come close to explaining why it
wasn’t-— is actually being done
now." -

HART, AS have local investiga-~
. tors, has established three possible
_scenario’s for Rosselli’s death: his
recent organized crime activity, re-
taliation for his Castro assassina-
tion efforts or the information he
held concerning the JFK assassina-
tion.

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“Maybe Resselli's - - information
was the vital nerve of the Kennedy~
assassination,” a Senate source. told .
The Herald. - :

High officials in the Cuban gov- ‘
ernment also reportedly feel there.

- was a “Cuban factor"ein the JFK

: death, but they see it as a result of .

' exile politics, according to a recent
article by Alton Frye, a senior fel-.
low of the Council Foreign Rela-:
tions in Washington.

_Frye wrote that he visited Ha-
vana recently and met with Cuban,

; Officials including Deputy Prime
. Minister Carlos ‘Rafael Rodriguez.
“.,. they volunteer the suspicion
that the recent murders of Sam Gi-

‘ancana and Johnny Rosselli ...
surely have some connection with

) Cuban exile politics and the ‘Kenne-
dy murder,” Frye wrote. :

THERE HAVE been theories re-
cently propounded to show why
both pro and anti-Castro forces

' could have wanted to get JFK out
- of power in 1963.
On the one hand, there is the re-

' port of French journalist Jean Dan- .

_ jel, who was the bearer to Castro
. of an offer from.JFK for calmer re-
, dations. Castro was

reportedly ;
‘ agreeable, The report stated that.

©Daniel ‘later was: Junching with.’

,, Castro when word came that Ken-

* nedy had been’ shot. Daniel de-
scribed the Cuban leader as genu-
inely shocked by the news.

It has since been learned that
probably in the very hour JFK was
shot, a one-time Castro supporter
was receiving a poison pen device
from a CIA agent in what was a
long-running anti-Castro ‘effort.
That Cuban agent was code-named -
AM/LASH, and he has since been
identified as Rolando Cuebala, now

imprisoned in Cuba for his assassi- °

. nation plotting.

WHETHER JFK had knowledge
of, or perhaps even approved, any:

of the assassination plots will prob-:

" ably never be known.
His closest advisers, who testi-

‘fied before the Senate Committee,.

‘all said he had no knowledge of
such plots and would never have
+ approved of them.
The same month Rosselli was.
. passing poison pills to his Cuban
» contact at a meeting at the ‘Fon-
? tainebleau, March of 1961, former
Florida Sen. George Smathers, a
friend of Kennedy, said he and

Page 406

. phone call

Kennedy discussed the ramifica-°

tions of a Castro assassination.

Smathers has since said Kennedy
rejected the idea and that the dis-
cussion was more of a “brain-pick-
ing” session. —

AT LEAST one “high- -level CIA
official did testify he believed the

White House was being briefed on-

the plots but according to Richard
Bissell, one of the officials who
originally decided to use Rosselli, it
was through the method of “plau-
sible deniability.”

That, according to the recent
Senate report, ‘can also lead to the
use of euphemism and circumlocu-
tion, which are designed to allow
the President and other senior offi-
cials to deny knowledge of an op-
eration should it be disclosed.” :

Another alleged link between!
the White House and the under-

‘world plotters, first made public by

the Senate Committee, has also
been denied by virtually everyone
involved. Judith Campbell Exner,
the woman who claims to have
been friend and lover to both Gian-

“cana and JFK, introduced to both
by Frank Sinatra, was not a link in_
‘the Castro plotting, those close’ to =

both Giancana and Kennedy have

said, ,

A MAN with acéess to Kenne-
dy's closest advisers told The Her-
ald recently, “The Giancana- Ros-
selli thing is unrelated to the Exner
thing. I was there. Sure JFK knew
her, but he was naive about those
kinds of things.”

There is documentation to show
that om March. 22, -1962, Hoover.

_lunched privately with Kennedy
. and presumably gave him his first

information linking Exner with the
gangsters. The final:

recorded
between the White -

: House and Exner was made only al

few hours later. ;

Another possible link discussed

‘in the Senate report shows that the

same unidentified Cuban‘to whom :

Rosselli

passed the poison pills '

prior to the Bay of Pigs operation ©

in April of 1961, was among a

group of Cuban exile leaders who :

met with JFK following the inva-.

"* sion fiasco. :

-IT IS known that several of the
_ Cubans -

with - whom Rosselli
worked have been identified, but
investigators say that not all are
known.

. those
- about,”

As a condition to his appear-.”
ances before the Senate Committee.’ :
in the past year, it was agreed that 5
Rosselli “would not state the
names or confirm the existence of.
agents whom he knew

Rosselli’s attorney . Leslie. i.
' Scheer said.
The friends and acquaintances of

' Rosselli who could be contacted by .

The Herald all said they never :
“heard the names of the Cuban -

, agents,

But -a “committee” ‘source “cau-"

tioned, “they (Cuban agents) read :

the committee's report, they know
who's being referred to,”

ANOTHER Rosselli attorney, .
Tom Wadden, a partner of Edward ;
Bennett Williams, said, ‘‘Yes, It
‘think he had more knowledge’ «
’ than he testified to. _

Searching Rosselli‘s more recent
past. for. enemies also presents’
problems, investigators say. «+.

The decline of John Rosselli ap-.'
pears to begin in the late 1960s. In”
1967, he was convicted jn a card--
cheating scandal at the posh, celeb- |
rity-filled Friar’s Club in- Los An- .
geles where the influence of Sina- °.
tra had made him a member ac-
cording to investigators. ~

Deportation pressures were also
mounting at this time.

“ ROSSELLI entered prison on the
conviction in 1970 where he would:
serve three years of a five-year,
sentence.

In 1971, he was brought td a.
federal grand jury in Los Angeles
which was probing whether some
indentified Detroit organized crime °

leaders conspired with the Emprise:
Corp. — a giant firm with nation-:
wide race track and sporting event’
concessions — to hide financial in-;
terests in the Frontier, Hotel dnt Las.
Vegas.

Rosselli, too, had, an interest in’
the Frontier, which opened in 1967.
He owned the gift shop concession‘
along, with a partner named Joe.
Breen, How Rosselli obtained the
concession is unclear,. but’ Breen
said it gave Rosselli an‘ income of
about $60,000.

ROSSELLI at one time hdd been:
a major influence in Las Vegas.
Several sources sajd that when the
owners of the Desert Inn wanted
Howard Hughes to move out of the ©
penthouse — because. his special
needs were ‘costly and putting


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some “high rollers” in would be
more profitable — it was Rosselli
-who patched things up.

Hughes eventually bought the
Desert Inn, as well as the Frontier.

What Rosselli told the federal
grand "jury about the Frontier, in
1971 is unknown.. Rosselli didn't

testify later at the trial at which.

Anthony J. Zerilli and Michael Pol-

izzi and the Emprise.Corp., among.

others, were convicted.

ZERILLI and Polizzi are “still in

jail. In 1973, the House of Repre-
sentatives Select Committee on
Crime probed the influence of or-
ganized crime in sports — and one
area they looked at was Emprise
and the Frontier Hotel case.

At the time. of the conviction, the
federal prosecutor asked that Poliz-
zi and Terilli be jailed immediately,
because monitored, wiretapped
conversations showed that the two
had talked about “murder, the kill-
-ing of certain individuals.”

An intimate associate of Rosselli,
however, discounts the possibility
that Rosselli’s grand jury appear-
ance could have led to his death.
“They know Johnny didn't talk to
the grand jury,” the associate said.

JOE BREEN said: Rosselli hadn't
been to Las Vegas for nine years,
that “he’s never even seen the gift
shop.”

Since his prison release and
move to Plantation, Rosselli wasn't
trying to regain power: according
to his friends. ‘He had no muscle.”
said an associate.“ can’t believe
Rosselli was getting back into’ mob
stuff.”

But at the same time, many of

the: associates were surpised to
learn about Rosselli’s recent visits
with alleged organized crime fig-
ures on the West Coast.
_ Several associates speculate that
Rosselli. wanted to get involved in
_ casino gambling, preferably in the
‘Middle East, and was looking for
someone with money to back him.

“MY IMPRESSION was that he
was broke,” Morgan said. “He told
me last year, ‘Tm. in. bad. financial.
straits.’ ” . ‘
Scheer said Rosselli's income in-
cluded about $60,000 from the gift
_shop and about $3,500 in social se-
curity, most of which went for
back fees to attorneys and for gov-
_ernment fines. ee

. One friend said! that just before
Giancana’s death, |Rosselli had ac-
cepted Giancana's|offer of money.
The friend was to|act as-the inter-
mediary. “Let me/figure out what
my next (attorney's) tab will-be,"-
the friend. quoted ' Rosselli as say-
ing. . wp
Rosselli is described as a man
with a sense of humor who did lit-"
tle offending. :

A California woman who had

known Rosselli for about 40 years

_told "The Herald,! “If you’ were.

around him for 30 minutes you'd
like him because he would regard
you as a human being.”

“If you had a headache he would’
either get you an laspirin or send
someone to get one. I said some-
thing significant there — he would
get it or he would send someone —

“he wasn't a pansy,;but he wasn’t a

tough guy either.”



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. UNTTE D STATES GON ARNMENT, | , ; Fe iwvont —

‘Memorandum

TO : Mr. por / DATE: 12-10-G4

; ii
. Va 1-My, Sullivan :
FROM : A, Rosom,# (O.H. Bartlett) Holmes .
a 4 mo . Il-Kr. DeLoach © GANDY emma
7 } l-Mr. Belmont Non Ah
SUIJECT: ‘pRESIDENT'S COMMISSION . 1-Nr. Rosen SS
‘ON THE ASSASSINATION oF l-Mr. Malley [+ a
PRESIDENT KENNEDY 1l-Mr, Shroder “Kye
l-Mr. Rogge Po
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PURPOSE: as "a4 a
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To advise you that an Agent of the Secret Service, when =
testifying before the President's Commission, denied making certain ,
statements to FBI Agents which were subsequently reported to the
Commission. i.

Pa

DETAILS: i Te

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° ° In Volume XI of the hearings before the President's

‘Commission commencing on page Gl there anpears the testinony :
of Roy I. Eellerman, Assistant Special Agent’, White House Detail, jae
U.S. Secret” Service on 3-9-G4, . *In Charge :

; “ Under questioning by a Commission member, Kellerman
was asked about certain statements reportedly made by him on i
11-22-63, to SA's Francis %. O Neili, Jr. and James W. Sibert, :
of our Baltimore Office, which appear in the 12-10-63 Dallas
report of Special Agent Robert P. Gemberling (page 3, paragraph ot
4). SA's O'Neill and Sibert were under orders to be observers
during the autopsy of president Kennedy at the National Naval _f

_ Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, which commenced on the ~ ;F
evening of Lli- 22- 63, to be of assistance to the Secret Service, /

and to look after the Bureau's interests.

>. Our Agents, in conversation with* Kellerman, sometime c
during the evening of 11-22-63, learned of pertain information, ae
portions of which were reported as follows:i7 7 emg red Je.

1 ie
, "He advised he heard a shot: ‘and _Limediacpty
co . turned around, looking past Gover'nor Connally j
, Re; th president . He observed the seegtiont, slumped
eg th cece forward and heard him say, ‘Get me to a hospital." \
re Mr Kellerman then heard Hrs. hennedy say, Np
rely SU 'Oh, no!', as the President leaned towards her. : Ly

me 15 He immediately advised the driver to take the fi
Fis] - President to the’ nearest hospital. "

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-~A. tosen te Mr. Belmont Nemo
RE: PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION

; The Commission in questioning Kellerman made specific | none
‘reference to the underscored portions of the above paragraph a
as it contradicts some of Kellerman's testimony. Kellerman aan

claims he did not .hear the President. nor Mrs. Kennedy say
these things and had never told our Agents that he had. In
part of Kellerman's denial he stated "I don' t know where they
}got those quotes," ;

OBSE aRVATIONS:

Kellerman is claiming our Agents furnished inaccurate
accounts of a conversation with him. It is to be remembered vt
that at the time this conversation with our Agents reportedly

took place 11-22-63, Kellerman had been a security guard in
the Presidmt's car and more than likely was upset and feeling
remorse over the days episode, In his testimony before the
Commission hek’endeavored to give the impression that he’ acted .
calmly and immediately took command, issuing logical instructions
after the Presiddat was hit. The conversation reported by. Eade -
“——- our Agents made it appear Kellerman reacted normally to the , -
tragedy and not dramatically as indicated in his testimony, _
as he didn't order the driver tothe hospital until after the | —
- President had so directed. ,

It is felt our Agents reported accurately what
Kellerman told them on 11~22463, and that Kellerman's testimony
33 months later is the result of considered deliberation, on

his part, to paint the most favorable pictuve possible, under _ —
the circumstances, for the Secret Service. ?
Consideration has been given to discussing this matter —_=

with Chief Rowley of Secret Service, however, since it is the
word of our Agents against Kellerman’ s, it is not felt any good
purpose would be served by this course of action. ,

RECOMMENDATION: . . a ‘

Affidavits are being obtained from our Agents Sibert
and O'N@ill attesting to the accuracy of their report and
refuting Kellerman se that we will be in a position to show
any future inquirer that we recognized this contradiction and
did apne thing about it,

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY Ya fei & ee
st (ee
ASHINGTON,D.C. 20505 Nard ;
Review Staff: 76-0298/1 we
11 March 1976 enum
Mr. William G. Miller
Staf€ Director sdadeee.“
Select Committee To Study Governmental ;
Operations With Respect To Intelligence ee?
Activities ,
Room G-508 .
- Dirksen Senate Office Building .
Washington, D. C. 20510 Attn: Mr. Johnston
Dear Mr. Milter:
Ria
In response to a request dated 9 March 1976 about .
the Oswald file held by the- Agency, the attached 1s

forwarded for your information.

Sincerely, |

Moat Eller | .
Walter Eider eer

Review Staff

Attachment:
As stated

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Attachment to:
Review Staff: 76-0070/1

1. The following CIA Staff Employees, all of whom
are now retired, participated in the preparation of DIR
86054 on 30 November 1963: , ;

Originator: Mr. Louis Armstrong

Coordinators: Mr. John M. Whitten, Mr. William
mo, _B. Tyng, Ms. Sue L. Darling

Authenticator: Mr. William B. Tyng (‘'for"
Desmond FitzGerald)

Releasor: Mr. John M, Whitten ("for" J.C. King)

: 2. We believe that the Italian diplomat on the Cubana
flight No. 465 on 22 November 1963 from Mexico City to Havana,
Cuba, was Mario MAURI who was accompanied by his wife, Maria
Antonieta MAURI. We have been unable to determine who trans-
mitted the ‘information contained in DIR 86054 to CIA and we

_have not been able to locate any documents relating to this
matter in Latin America Division files or the Oswald files.

3. We have been unable to locate any documents which
would indicate that there was a response to DIR 86054 from
Mexico City. ;

4. Assuming there was no response to DIR 86054, the
originating Headquarters component should have initiated
follow-up action if a response was not received. .

5. We have been unable to find any further information
relating to DIR 86054 in Latin America Division files.

FEB 5 1976

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the 22 November-1963 flight from Mexico C
we have determined that the following per

flight:
NAME NATIONALITY |
_Jakob ETT Swiss
Hector LEMIEUX. Canadian
Joseph POULIOT Canadian |
Donald George CAMERON Canadian ~
William POULIS Canadian —
Thomas Clark OSULD Canadian
Dungan MCPHERSON Canadian
Leo John DEST Canadian
Thomas MURPHY Canadian.
Arthur EDMONDS | British
James DISINOP ; British
Venancio OLIVAREZ Villaverde Spanish
Jose Luis CACHO y Barcha Spanish
. David FLOR Lechago Spanish:
Maria Antonieta MAURI Italian :
Mario MAURI Italian ~~
Maarten Van DERPLAAT Dutch
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a wt . a “cst Bround recallin: detail:
a“ of their having been in”a group with Osveld here last. fail.
, eurang the daysthat ne wes in deaeearinan {he write-ups of the
Warren CommiSs ior report in the nevspaders &
discussi Qn and they 3: sperently nod never reaily. st around
datozmind to piece itv ail cogether, althcush all three were
deeply aifected by Lenne aiy's assassination, Secnea literally.
i nee to adore tha Kennecy family imege,. still follow Robart y-enned:
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nene of the other, guests, mace any atteapt to approscen then.

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ty wexigo Ging. Dxtommbica ca the actions of
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, 7 intesrspaies by toa Hexicon outhorisica, is attached
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fonusiseion in the evaluetica of Hra. DUBAM's story.

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obtain yiaes ia setier to vieis thes, coumicies, aod oie.
had Gendled bis case ab the Coben Conailate. ;

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sate her colleaguin was ber elais that tbe Recioca golice _
nnd thoestesed te extradite har to tae Uaited tietes for a

conitmmbaiion on CSMAID. According te the sourne, Silvia
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sack & cenironation.

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raced origia of tbs sucgzested cenfrontatian. The lea
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454 pccuniind te the puss souren, imumulataly after
srl since the asstesinetion the permspel of ee
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wleasare 2% the aesasalition wese Seard, acl these res
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in tha om ches Dmbasey and Consulata tend ta confima tas
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UNITED STATE ES DEPI2TAMENT OF JUSTICE

on FEDERAL AUAEAU °F INVESTIGATION

FASHINGTOXN 25,D.C.

June 9, 1962

Zonoradle J. Lee Rankin: | oo, ,

General Counsel

The President's Commissioa
200 Maryland Avenue, Northeast oo
Niasnington, D. C. 20002

Dear ur. Ransin: ; . _ .

Your letter of June 1, 1964, requesting susmeries
ei FBI reporz=s wita regard ide) con neaed persons and certain
information regarding the contact by Special Agent Caarles W,
Flyon with Jack L, Rudy on Marca 11,.1959, is herewita
acknowledged. fi

As you were advised by ny letter of February 27,
1954, Jack Ruoy vas contacted by Svacial Agent Cnarles V.
Flynn of the Dallas Office on Harcoa 12, 1959, in view of his
position as a nignt ‘club operator Fho Bigat have knowlecse of
the criminal élesent in Dallas. The purpose of this contace
yas to determine whether or not Ruby did have sucu knowlecs2
ecd if so, if re would be willing to furnisa iniornatisca to
this Bureau. Euyy wos ndvised of the FSI’ s jurisdiction in
erininal matters, and he expressed a willingness t iurnis
infornation. A personal ‘description of Ruoy was “Gotnined by
Sceciai Agent Flynn oa the occasion of this contact on
Maxch 11, 1259, but no information or other results were
contained. Detseen HBrca 11, 1559, and Cctovez 2, 1959, Pusy
was contacted on eight other ccc2sions, but 29 furnisned 10
daformation waavever aad further contacts with him were
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the reoark "known Dallas Cyininal.”" This remark was adéed to
tha cescription oy Special Agent Louis WM. Zelley at tie tine
Wwoea he was assisting ia the preparation of ¢hs revort of Special
Agent Nanaing C, Clezents at Dallas dated Noveaber 30, 1963,
Enclosed herewith is the affidavit of Special Agent Louis M,
. Kelley at Little Rock, ‘Arkansas, dated June 4, 1964, setting
forth his basis for adding.'the remark "known Dallas area
-crininal™ to ths description of Puby as it apvears in the revort
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1963, and in the enclosure 'to my letter to you of April 7, 1932,
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The Gashingten Merry-Go-Round

BI Withheld Deta on JFK Slaying

By Jack Anderson

and Les Whitten

'e FEST (ola? Y. belLcout of the Justice Department

The FBI. withheld from the
Warren Commission hundreds
of documents about the

assassination’ of President ,,

’ Kennedy.
"These are raw FBI files,
which the commission

requested but never received,
They contain no. startling
information that will overturn
the commission's verdict, but
they reveal intimately how the
FBI handled its most im-
portant case. ‘
In the margins of some
suppressed memos, the late
FBI chief, J. Edgar Hoover,
scribbled caustic comments in
blue ink. He was critical of
almost everyone involved in
the investigation, from Dallas
police chief Jesse Curry to
. President Lyndon Johnson.

Confidential notes kept by
:one top FBI official, for
- example, quote Hoover as
warning: “Johnson may

become very dictatorial. We
Aimust keep our guard up.”

- + Sources familiar with the

suppressed documents say the
* contents were summarized
and submitted to the Warren
Commission. But there were
“some subtle, perhaps
deliberate, omissions. :
The documents show that
Hoover brought pressure on
his subordinates to rush outa
preliminary report on the FBI
investigation before the
murdered President’s
brother, Robert F. Kennedy,
returned to his desk as
Attorney General.

- As a former defector, he also

The confidential notes queie
Hoover as instructing his
subordinates to get the rep ort

“before Bobby gets back.” -
Apparently, the FBI chief

also feared Deputy Attorney -.

General Nicholas deB, Kat-

zenbach might, tamper with |
the report before forwarding it

to the Warren Commission.
Hloover told his aides to alert
President Johnson's major-
domo, Waiter Jenkins.

“Let Jenkins know after
report is out of our hands.”
Hoover directed. ‘Let Jenkins
know what Katzenbach is
doing. Might cause long delay.
Must not consider any
alteration,” :

Thirteen days after
President Kennedy was
gunned down in Dallas,
Hoover delivered a detailed
report to Katzenbach naming
Lee Harvey Oswald as the.
assassin. Katzenbach kept it
four days before submitting it
to the commission.

The crusty old G-man was
furious at the Dallas police
chief, meanwhile, for leaking
the story that the FBI had
investigated. Oswald but had
failed to alert the Secret
Service. .

“This is the lowest level in
history of Bureau since I have

been director,” Hoover
lamented, according to the
confidential notes.

He contended that’ Oswald
had never been seen with
firearms, had written no hate
letters against U.S. leaders.

knew he was a marked man
whom the FBI was watching.

#rumbled Hoover, “how could
he be security risk? No in-
dication of violence so far as

our records show. . . Oswald

could have hollered false
had arrested.

arrest if we
him.”

The FBI chief commented
that: Chief Justice Earl
Warren. who headed the
commission, “would have
been first one to holler” about
Oswald's rights. Citing the
criticism of the FBI, Hoover
commented: “This is one of
the rough ones.” :

He felt, therefore, that
President Johnson should
have endorsed the FBI report.
“President
backed up report,” com-
plained Mewver, “based on
eviderze gathered by the
FRi.” “

in private remarks that.

were never intended to be
repeated outside his inner

- circle, he made deprecating
only about |
’ President Johnson but about

remarks not

Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-
Ariz.), who was then
Preparing to run against LBJ
for the presidency.

‘Goldwater has no sound findings and the thoroughness

advisers around him,” Hoover
noted. But his comment on

Johnson was more deadly: -

“LBJ's speeches are dull."
The ' Warren Commission
adopted «a resolution,
meanwhile, calling for -“‘the
Taw. materials upon which any
reports given to the com-
mission are based, together

4

“With that background,”

A

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should have.

- and

with all raw materials and
reports relating to the work of
the conmission since the date
of any and all earlier reports.”
J. Lee Rankin, the general
counsel, followed up with a.
“Dear Edgar” letter to the +
FBI chief requesting the: full
files “as promptly as...
possible.” But’ they were °
never delivered, ' :
A commission
remembering those days;
more than a decade ago, .
told us: “Nobody ever got the .
FBI's own files.” In 1963-64, «
another staff member pointed
out, the FBI “could do no-

lawyer, -

- wrong,” so no one pressed too
“hard

for their internal -
records.

Now ‘12 -years after the |

‘Kennedy assassination, a

fascinating story is still locked . |
in FBI files awaiting a public -
reopening. We will tell part of .
the story in future columns,
Sen. Richard Schweikér (R- oo
Pa.), chairman of the Benate . -
intelligence subcommittee °,
investigating | ‘the ae
assassination, is seeking the ©
full story from the FBI.

Footnote: FBI spokesmen
stoutly defended the FBI's

of the investigation. They
conceded that “informative” -
“deliberative” memos
were not given to the com-
mission. But “everything they
needed was given them. They
had all they wanted to make
their findings.'’

(1975, United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

Voshin Stapan Merry-Go-Round

Oswald-Agent Contact Covered Up

p OS 4S?

By Jack Anderson cen Randling the Oswatd Summary of Oswald's But in a later lettor to the
and Les Whitten case. Shanklin telephoned the notebook. The Summary Warren Commission, dated

° ; in Dallas police and asked (poveniently omitted the fact » April 6,. 1964, Hoover stated ©

The late J. Edgar Hoover, in whether Hosty could Par, — that Hosty’s name, telephone /. categorically; -+y wish to

his zeal ta protect his beloved licipatei ; ion’ ; : Q ize’ thathene

ie pate in the interrogation, and license tag had been in the emphasize’ that®the facts
FBI, engineered a cover-up 12 Hosty later questioned “ notebook, __-. available to the FBI con-
years ago to keep the Warren - Oswaid at police headquar-  ; The commission found out cerning Lee Harvey Oswald’

Commission from learning ° lers. Oswald, who had been “Sabout the - omission and _ prior to the assassination dj

. : . . os . in did

about the ties between FBI outwardly calm, Suddenly ~”. demanded an explanation, On - not indicate in any way that he
* Sent James Hosty and . became agitated. “I know: Jan. 27, 1964, Hoover ‘was or would be a threat to*,
 “@Ssassin Lee Harvey Oswald, .. you!’" he shouted. “I know ~ acknowledged that Hosty’s ; President Kennedy,” 2

The formidable Hoover, you! You're the one who ac. ., name had : been: in the *. is. of

become na sae, fer feed my witetwicet 7 ane the Rar So vpeecived

“law ‘and order, intervene ' The — incident Passed, |‘ re fod to be a eae what dramatic evidence less thang “|:

personally when the Warren .. however, without any mention =: re the FBI's a tacts with week before the assassination .}°

Commission began to zero in Of the threatening letter, ~. . last he : that Oswald was violence-:’

-on Hosty . Hosty also confided toa friend,., Oswald. he ast contact, © prone. ; fe

Now, 12 years later, Hosty "an the ene pace rere 1963, "We age nat interwion: On April 24, the Dallas” 7
has admitted destroying a 7 ac Revil ' Oswane Rend ° Oswald in Dallas, Texas, or in- had ioe News Deed Hasty
- e e, : ‘ ; P e
6 weld dele ad t the FRE ‘peated the conversation toa | Irving, Texas, prior to the | liewlenant, Ja k Revie ee :
_Vswa vered to the : .: assassination of President yack Revill,’ that

: Office in Dallas a few days .. Superior who ordered him to . “Kennedy,” Hoover added. + the FBI knew Oswald was

"before shooting President — putitin writing. !". , Interestingly, he used the | “capable” o¢ assassinating |

‘John FB, Kennedy in “Special Agent Hosty »’ word “our” to describe the the President. a :

* November, 1963. The note related to this officer...” ‘last contact with the FBI. But Hoover immedi tely sent

‘threatened to blow upthe FBI — Revill. wrote, “that the “,on Feb, 6, in a sworn affidavit, : Word to the Wa ren Com’.

: Office and Dallas police., Federal! Bureau of Hoover changed the wording Mission that ‘the Story was
a , headquarters if Hosty didn’t - Investigation was aware ofthe in a curious way. He swore \ “false” and followed up three
a _ * stop bothering his wife. Subject (Oswald) and that ~. that Oswald ‘had no contact | days later with a personal -

_ is The FBI should “have. they had information that this -” with FBI “agents” after Aug. ~ letter delivered bycourier,
‘notified the Secret Service ‘Subject was Capable of 10,1963, “Special Agent Hosty
that Oswald, a misfit who had « committing the assassination : “+ UNnequivocally denies ever.
‘threatened violence, was in . of President Kennedy.” . ptt is now known, of Course, *- having made the Statement as
the Dallas area. The Secret. Hoover was furious when he “ that Oswald appeared at the - quoted in this article.,,’".
‘Service routinely would have ..- learned of Hosty's loose talk, - FBI office in Dallas a few days declared the FBIdirector,
checked his whereabouts ». According to confidentia] ~ before the assassination, At “Special Agent Hosty points
during the presidential visit, notes taken at the lime, the that time, just as Hoover said, :out that prior to the
phi might have saved _ grisalen FBI chief complained he did not speak with any FBI “assassination of President:
President Kennedy's life. - that Hosty had “diarthea of -- “agents.” But he spoke with - John Fitzgerald Kennedy, he
- qihenthe FBI learned thata — wordg ss But the old man, an FBI hig thescnist, who never had any information:.
‘Suspect named Lee Harvey nevertheless, sought to cover . __ passed on his threatening note . indicating potential violence -
‘Oswald had been Picked up, up the FBI's embarrassment, + to the agents, _ _ on the part of Lee Harvey |
Hosty reminded his boss’ .- ‘On Dec. 23, 1963, the FBI . It is imposisible to know - Oswald.” : :
‘ Gordon Shanklin, that he had | gave the Warren Comnissionag Whether the late FBI chief There's more to Hoover's -
toate ; subtly switched the word - Breat cover-up, which we'll |
- our” to “agents” in order to- “‘feportinafuturecolumn,
. hide his knowledge of... € Unites Feature Syndicate, ine,
Oswald's violent threat,

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Jack Anderson

Did the Castro P lot

' .The late Robert Kennedy was tor-
mented by the terrible thought, ae.
cording to intimates, that he may have

“helped trigzer the assassination of hig-

brother, .

We raised this Possibility in January
1971, when we first revealed that the
“CIA had plotted to assassinate Cuban
Premier Fidel Castro, It has taken us
41% years to get the rest of the story.

Loyal associates of Robert Kennedy,
rushing to defend his memory, have

oo Sworn that he knew nothing about the

aSSASsinalion attempts-and, contradic.
torily, that ke put a stop to them. Both
“ecounts are incorrect, according to
Sources with an intimate knowledge of
the events. : :
“Not only was he fully aware of the
CIA's attempts to kill Castro, but after
President Kennedy was sunned dovn
in Dallas, Robert was devastated by
ite possibility that the CIA plot may
— have backfired against his brother,
’ +The preparations to knock off Castro
befan during the last months of the
Eisenhower administration as part: of
the Bay of Pigs planning. Presicent
Kennedy, who inherited the fiasco,
swore to friends afterward that he
would like “to splinter the CIA in a
thousand pieces and Scatter it to the
winds." .
: Insiead, he appointed his brother,
Robert, to oversee the CIA, with in-

structions to shake it up. Characteristi- °

cally, Robert began investigating the
undercover operations from tep ‘to bot-
tom. Ilis purpose was to prevent an-
other Bay of Pigs. _ . .

He became fascinated, say our
sources, With the CIA's ccvert activi
ties. Eagerly, he pursued the details
down through the lower-levels. vAs one
source put it, “He was like a wide-eyed
schoolboy.” ao

“In the process, he learned about the
continuing effort to eliminate Castro,
2n operation known inside the CIA as
‘he “executive action plan.” In fact,
Robert took a special interest in the
: . ene!

WO Pek Taq
Rank ft

_ nothing
" get, Fidel Castro, also knew about it

DACs

CD .
on

“Not only was he fully aware of the CLAs

atlentpts to kill Castro, but after President

Kennedy as gunned down in Dallas, Robert

Kennedy ivas devastated by the possibility that’

the CIA plot may have backfired against his

brother.” :

activities against Castro.
former Deputy Defense Secretary Ros-
well Gilpatric, told us the focus “on
the Cuban situation” was intensified in
1951 at Robert Kennedy's

The President eventually put Robert
in charge of a counter-insurgencey com.
vittee, called the Special Group,
which concentrated ubon harassing:

One insider,

’ Castro. One member, former CLA chief .

Jehn MeCone, acknowledged that the
sroup had = “directed mischievous
things against Castro like infiltrating
sabotcurs, blowing up bridges and car-
rylng on general confusion.” .

AlcCone insisted, however, that “the
sroup at no time gave any cansidera.
lion to any assassination plot.” We
have established that the “executive
action plan” was directed by Wiliam
Harvey, the CIA Operative whom! we
linked to the assassination plot in our
orisinal 1971 story. We have also
learned that he reported to the late
Desmond Fitegerald in CIA headquar-
ters. We have becn unable, however, to
identify the next link in the chain of
command. : .

Nevertheless, wholly reliable sources
insist that Robert Kennedy Enew
about the plot against Castro and did
to stop it: The intended tar-

One assassination’, squad reportedly,_

was apprehended on a Havana ‘roof top.

Rt eye

To tt

“tusistonce?.

Within range of Castro’s movements,
abeut March 1, 1063. .

The Cuban premicr, in an interview
with Associatcd Press correspondent
Daniel. llavker the folowing Septem.
ber, warned that U.S. deaders would
find themselves in danser if they’ at-
‘tempted to do away with Cuban lead.
ers. .

“United States leaders should think

that if they are aiding terrerist plans .

to climinate Cuban leaders, they them-
Harker, veh

Two months later, President Ken.
nedy was shot down in the streets of

selves will not be safe,” Castro told,

Dallas. The accused assacsin, Lee Har- -

vey Oswald, had been active in the
pro-Castro movement and had traveled
to Mexico to visit the Cuban embassy.
a few weeks cartier.

‘The first person to reach Robert
Kennedy's side after the shooting wag
CIA director John NceCone, Who re
mained alone with Robert at his Ale-
Lean, Va; home for nearly three
hours. All others, including Robert’s
priest, were turned away. But McCone
swore to us that Castro’s name was
never mentioned Curing the agonizing
three hours. oa

Other. sources say that Robert,
deeply despondent, went into semi-se.
clusion for the next few days. Al-
though he bottled up his feelings, they
nae .

. terview with Frank Mankiewiez and

‘in this, beeause [am under the impres-

“United States and that it was all a re.

knew hint and understood {he cireiimn:
stances well enouzh. to realize he
blamed himself for his brother's death,
There was little Coubt, they s; :
he believed (he CLA’s attempts again
Castro put into rmetion the forees that
brought about his brother's mariye:
dom.

On January 18, 1971, we reported:
“Among those privy to the CIA con-
spiracy, there is still a nagcing suspi-
cion—nnsupported by the Warren Com.
Mission's findings—that Castro became
aware of the U.S. plot upon his life
and somehow recruited Oswald to re.

_ taliate avainst President Keunedy.”

Tt has now been disclosed. that the

_ Warren Commission was told nothing

eabont the CEA’s plot to kill Castro
even thoush the late Allen Dulles, the
CIA chief who initiated the plot, sat on
the commission: .

According to the final report, the
commission investigated “‘Titerally doz.
ens of allegations of a conspiratorial
contact between Oswald and the Cuban
government? but- found no substance
to any of them. :

The Cuban premier himself, in an in-

Kirby Jones, emphatically denied hav-
ing anything to do with the Kennedyey
assassination. . 3
“It is... very interesting that this
man Oswald, who was involved in thef
assassination, traveled to Mexico a fowa
months prior to the assassination and’
applicd for a permit at the Cuban em-
bassy to travel to Cuba, and he wasm
hot given the permit,” said Castro.
“But task myself why would a mang
who commits such an act try to comet
here. Sometimes we ask ourselves if
someone did not wish to involve Cuba =

sion that Kennedy's assassination was
organized by reactionaries in the

sult of. a@ conspiracy... We have never
believed in carrying out this {ype
of activity of assassination of
adversaries.” ") 0" ogg,
¢c 1975. United Feature, Ine, ,

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CIA Withheld Data in JFK Probe —

After President John F. Kennedy: .
was struck down on Nov. 22, 1963, the
Central Intelligence Agency received
evidence suggesting that Cuban Pre-
mier Fidel Castro arranged the assassi-
nation in retaliation for. attempts on
his life. :

Yet sources privy to the secret dis-
cussions at the highest levels of the
CIA during those hectic days now tell
us that the CIA deliberately withheld
the evidence from the Warren Com-
mission investigating Kennedy’s death.

Our sources cite two reasons for
holding back this evidence. One was a
resolve to cover up the secret that the

' CIA had enlisted Mafia mobsters to kill

Castro. ;

There also was a legitimate concern
that the Castro revelations might in-
flame the American people, whose
grief could have turned into a terrible
wrath that might have precipitated
some rash action.

Only a few key people knew. about
the CIA plot to assassinate Castro. One
was Attorney General Robert F. Ken-
nedy, who was his brother's personal
watchdog over the CIA. It has now
been established that Robert Kennedy
was briefed on May 7, 1962, about the
attempt to use underworld killers to
knock off Castro.

Two days later, Robert Kennedy cau-
tioned the CIA not to go ahead with .
the assassination without consulting
him. Since Robert Kennedy rode herd
on the CIA, it must be assumed that he

" ; was kept advised of subsequent assassi-

nation attempts. However, there is no
documentary evidence of this.
Records now available show that
Robert Kennedy informed FBI chief J.
Edgar Hoover of the plot on May 10,

. DROPOUTS |

1962. Yet neither Kennedy nor Hoover

later divulged this important informa-

tion to the Warren Commission. :
Of course, various CIA officials also :

knew about the assassination scheme.

Not the least of them was the late CIA
chief Allen W. Dulles, who approved
the original plan. He later served on
the Warren Commmission, yet he sat

silently throughout the investigation -
. without mentioning the Cuban angle.

Within hours of President Kenne- .

dy’s death, the U.S. embassy cabled in-

formation from Mexico City suggest-

ing that the Cubans may have been be-
hind the assassination. Our sources say
that the CIA developed similar infor-
mation in Washington.

The first person to reach Robert

_ Kennedy's side after the shooting was

CIA Director John A. McCone, who re-
mained alone with the Attorney Gen-
eral at his McLean, Va. home for
nearly three hours. :

McCone swore to us that Castro's
name was never mentioned during the
three hours. But CIA records show
that the next day. McCone not only
mentioned Castro to the new Presi-
dent, Lyndon B. Johnson, but briefed
him on the information from Mexico

ity.

Yet no one brought the Cuban.

connection to the attention of the War-
ren Commission. We were the first to

get word of the anti-Castro plot to .

Chief Justice Earl Warren, the com-
mission chairman, four years later.
We are now free to reveal our role

‘in the drama. Two of our confidential

sources, CIA agent William Harvey

‘and mobster John Rosselli, are dead. A

third source, attorney Edward P. Mor-

SON,

Page 452

. had pro

Morgan told us in January, 1967,
“- about the CIA-Mafia assassination plot

_the attorney-client privilege. But he

_ President Kennedy.” |

{ t

gan, has waived the confidentiality we
mised him. .

against Castro. He raised the possibil-
ity that the plot could have backfired,
against President Kennedy. There
Were suspicious circumstances, he
pointed out, indicating that Castro
may have learned of the attempts on
his life and may have retaliated
against Kennedy. .
Morgan refused to identify his
sources because it would have violated

was an attorney of such stature that
we didn’t doubt his word. He had been
chief inspector of the FBL He had di-
rected the historic congressional inves-
tigation of the Pearl Harbor bombing.
Later, he ran the investigation into the
excesses of the late Sen. Joseph McCar-
thy.
. We got Morgan's permission, to
write a cautious story. We confirmed
the general outlines from a CIA
source. Then on March 3, 1967, we
wrote that Robert Kennedy “may have
approved an assassination plot, which
then possibly backfired against his late
brother.” ‘ : .
The next day, according to records
how available, Kennedy's secretary
called for a copy of the May 7, 1962,
memo, which summarized the briefing
he had received on the assassination
plot. See
On March 7, 1967, we reported more
details. “A reported CIA plan in 1963 to
assassinate Cuba’s Fidel Castro,” we
wrote, “... may have resulted in a
counterplot by Castro to assassinate

- By Howard Post

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Cr a ae


b rer

Mafia mobster John Roselli may
have taken the secret of the John F.
Kennedy assassination with him to his
death. He was brutally murdered a
few weeks ago, his backed-up body
stuffed into an oil drum and dumped
into Miami's Biscayne Bay.

Before he died, Roselli hinted to as«
sociates that he knew who had ar-
ranged President Kennedy’s murder.
It was the same conspirators, he sug-
gested, whom he had recruited earlier
to kill Cuban Premier Fidel Castro.

By Roselli’s cryptic account, Castro
learned the identity of the underworld
contacts in Havana who had been
trying to knock him off. He believed,

not altogether without basis, that Pres-
“ident Kennedy was behind the plot.

The Cuban leader, as the supreme

irony, decided to turn the tables and

nedy’s assassination, according to
Roselli's scenario. To save their skins,

- the plotters lined up Lee Harvey Os-
wald to pull the trigger.

Roselli could never be pinned down
‘On names or details. It was also diffi-
cult to assess whether he knew what
he was talking about or whether he
merely described what he thought
might have happened. Certainly there
is no real evidence to support Roselli’s
Story. But there are enough curious
circumstances to justify telling it. Here

"are the fascinating highlights.

The ruggedly handsome Roselli, a
flamboyant mobster with underworld
contacts in Havana, was recruited by
the Central Intelligence Agency in

' 1960 to assassinate Castro. He had no’ °
', authority, however, over the under-
world elements in Havana.

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use the same crowd to arrange Ken- | ose
‘ suaded: Giancana

. they tried to

They were under the loose control
of Florida’s Mafia chieftan, Santos
Trafficante. His gambling enterprises
in Havana had been closed down by

In an impromptu, three-hour inter. |
view with Associated Press reporter
Daniel Harker, Castro indicated that §
he knew about the attempts on his life-§

Castro after the 1959 revolution. In and warned that US. leaders also #
fact, Trafficante had been lodged fora might not be sate. That was Sept. ‘Z
period in a Cuban jail, an indignity 1963. . :

that didn’t endear Castro to him.

After Trafficante made it back to his

: Florida haunts, he left part of his or-
ganization behind in Havana. Some of
his henchmen even managed to de
velop contacts in Castro’s inner circle.
These Were the people Roselli wanted
to use to knock off Castro.

But Roselli didn’t have the Stature
inside the Mafia to make the necessary
arrangements with Trafficante. So
Roselli, called in his patron, the Chi-
cago godfather Sam (Momo) Giancana,
to deal with Trafficante.

As Roselli's associates tel] it, he per-
that it would be to
their advantage to win the good will of
the CIA. Convinced, Giancana flew
down to Florida to make the prelimi-
nary arrangements. -

Once Giancana and Trafficante set it
up, Roselli used the Havana under-
world to plot Castro's demise. At first,
plant poison pills, sup-
plied by the CIA, in Castro's food. The
pills would have made it. appear that
he died. of natural causes. When this
failed, snipers were dispatched to a
Havana rooftop. They were caught, .

The word reached Roselli that some
of the plotters had been tortured and
that Castro had learned about the
whole operation. 4

. The CIA called off the Roselli opera-

tion in March, 1963, but Tecruited a
Castro associate, Rolando Cubela, to
murder Castro, : .

According to Roselli, Castro enlisted
the same underworld elements whom
he had caught plotting against him. [
They supposedly were Cubans from
the old Trafficante organization.
Working with Cuban intelligence. they
‘allegedly lined up an ex-Marine sharp-
shooter, Lee Harvey Oswald, who had F
been active in the pro-Castro move-
ment. :

According to Roselli's version,
Oswald may have shot Kennedy or
may have acted as a decoy while oth-
érs ambushed him from Closer range.
When Oswald was picked up, Roselli §
Suggested, the underworid conspira- §
tors feared he would crack and dis-
close information that might lead to
them. This almost certainly would
have brought a massive U.S. crack-
down on the Mafia. .

So Jack Ruby was ordered lo elim-
inate Oswaid, making it appear as an
act of reprisal against the President's
killer. At least this is how Roselli ex-
plained the tragedy in Dallas.

Several key CIA officials believed
that Castro was behind the Kennedy
ination.

It has also been established that Jack
Ruby, indeed, had been in Cuba and
had connections in the Havana under-
world. One.CIA cable, dated Nov, 28,
1963, reported that “an American
gangster type named Ruby” had vis- #
ited Trafficante in his Cuban prison.

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It was a grisly end for John Rosselli, fidence, so he came to trust us. We
the dapper, debonair mobster about were the only reporters he would talk
- town, who had been a familiar figure to. mo
‘in the glittering night spots of Holly- | So when he vanished last month his .
. wood, Las Vegas and Havana. associates tame to us for help. We
His killers shot or stabbed himin the were suspicious, of course, that his dis-
. stomach. The autopsy indicates they appearance was linked to the Castro.
. Tay have shot him and then dug out caper, But our investigation has now.
,. the bullet with a knife. Then they bru- produced evidence to the contrary.
tally hacked off his legs. It is possible |= We have learned, for example, that -
. that he was still alive when they , Rosselli was not the amiable, retired.
stuffed his body into a55-gallondrum. old duffer he pretended to be. He be-
They wrapped chains around the. gan in the big time as a bookkeeper for
drum to weight it down and tossed it Chicago's notorious Al Capone and be-
into Biscayne Bay. The autopsy sug- ¢ame a specialist in white-collar
gests he may have died of asphyxiation crimes. It's a profession, apparently,
inside the drum before it bit the wa-- that he never gave up.
ter. The gases from the decomposing | Competent sources say that, be-
body floated the heavy container to tween rounds on the Florida golf
_ the surface. It was discovered, with its courses, Rosselll was involved in stolen
* nightmarish contents, 10 days after: securities and financial swindles. His .
Rosselli had disappeared from his sit-;: operations reportedly were. resented ,..
er’s home in Plantation, Fla. ; ‘by Santo Trafficante, who has been ~
'. The police withheld the gruesome identified in Senate testimony as the
details of his death while they Mafia chief in Florida.
searched for his killers. We began our © Rosselli came to Florida from Las
own investigation, meanwhile, after an Vegas, where he allegedly represented
appeal from his associates. ‘the Chicago mob. Our sources say that
We first encountered Johnny Ros -he handled millions in illegal gambling
selli more than five years ago. We. money, which he forwarded to the
were investigating his role in the Cen- Chicago underworld. There are re-
- tral Intelligence Agency’s plot to assas- ports that Chicago crime lord Tony Ac-
sinate Cuban Premier Fidel Castro. cardo felt he had been short-changed
The CIA case officer, William Harv- ‘by Rosselli. -
ey, told us that Rosselli had been the . Still earlier, Rosselli spent time in
hero of the abortive adventure. the slammer, first, for extortion and, —
_ Harvey broke his oath of secrecy be- ‘Jater, for a card swindle. Those who. -
cause he thought it might help Rossel- know him say he had developed a taste *.
‘i, who was in trouble with the law. for the good lite. He dressed in the lat.
The CIA agent had nothing but praise est styles, dined at the best restaurants -
" for Rosselli’s daring. ‘and dated beautiful women. The
. In the strictest of confidence, Res- thought of going back to prison,
. gelli himself confirmed that he had di- ‘friends say, horrified him.
rected six assassination attempts To avoid prison, he began to talk to
against Castro. We protected his con- the government as early as 1970. He

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gave’ information, according to our —
sources, which resulted in a grand jury
confrontation for Tony Accardo. The .
surly mobster took the fifth. But Ac--
cardo grumbled to associates that he.
would pay back Rossellisome day."
Rosselli was also blamed for passing «
information to the government, which ‘

-; led to the conviction of Detroit mob ;

ster Anthony Zerilli. He is now serving
a four-year séntence at Sandstone fed-
eral penitentiary for racketeering. \

Perhaps the last straw was Rosselli’s |
testimony in the Castro case. He identi- «
fied two mobsters, the late Sam Gian-
cana and Santo Trafficante, as being §
involved in the assassination attempts. ©
It's no secret in the underworld that |
Trafficante detests publicity. ;

Our sources believe that the Mafia |
bosses finally became fed up with Row :
selll., His’ execution would have re- é
quired the approval of the top leaders, *
our sources say, because it was almost.
certain to bring the federal govern-
ment into the case.

Who were the vicious killers? The
only clue is a smudge spot on the win- i
dow of Rosselli’s car. One of his assail-
ants probably had used a greasy hair «
pomade.

Job by Robert: Maheu, a for: oselll with deadly Polson|{s still on the CIA payroli.
mer FBI agent, who admitted | capsules which he tried|Both admitted to us @ friend.
to us that he had handled un- through @ relative of Castro’s aie vith thelr Cre ered
dercover assignments for the| chef to plant in the dictator’s .

‘ ; ‘ | Harvey said he had a * h re-
CIA, He retused, however, to/ food. Later, marksmen armed gard” tor. Roselli and es

discuss the details, This is the | with high-powered Belgian rt-|the Friar's Club case’a “bum
same Maheu, incidentally, who| flea ‘attempted - to. infiltrate Tap.” Said Harvey: “The
is now Involved in a legal bat. close J@ough * to: gun’ Castro Friar’s Club » indictment: ts
tle over phantom billionaire down. he a phony. Rosellf had no more to
Howard Hughes’ Nevada oper-| All told, six assassination at-|20 with that thanThad” 9"
ation, — Joos". 3‘ [tempts were’ made, the last in|: Roselll’s lawyers are now
Rosell! wag so flattered over |the.‘apring of 1943; “Through: trying" to get clemency for .
being asked to Perform a se-/out this period, Roselli Worked |their client, citing our atorieg,
cret misston for the U.S. gav- under ‘the direct: supervision about his secret CIA service, -+
ernment that-he pald all his of 2 Ae Lae BO ay
sabenses out of his own/llam Harvey and. ames (Big) Bp; a
Pocket and risked his neck to Jim) O'Connell. : Ce ae SHRearing Fiasco ©;
land the asSassination teams} | we
on the Cuban coast... Pee
In James: Bond fashion, he!:
held whispered meetings in! the ; ;
Miaml Beach hotels with Cy. tried to pump Roselli for in.
bana willing to maké an at: forn : "
tempt on Castro’s life, Once, | ta. silence by the CIA, and up
he called on Chicago racket] tg this momient, he hasn't bro-
boss Sam Giancana to Hine up |g, | Se ts
a contact. The confidential |: ‘Meanwhile, tha Justica De.
files report that Giancana had partment, ag part of ita erack-

“gambling Interest and an In-fdown. on, organized |'crime,
terest in the shrimp business | tried to nail eat a "i apa
discovered that H (Cicago| For the two years that the

boi Uo bo Sait FILE COPy ;
H ‘he Washington Merry-Go-Round 'NE WASHINGTON Post Tuesday, Feb, 23,1970 Buy.
, astro Stalker We rked foy the CIA =

Jack

The mystery “an whom the
Central Intelligence Agency
recruited to assassinate Cuba's
Fidel Castro has been laid up
in the sick ward of the Les
Angeles County jail,

He is handsome, hawk-faced
John Roselli, once a dashing
flgure around Hollywood and
Las Vegas, now a gray, 66
year-old inmate with a respira.
tory ailment. -

Confidential FBI files iden-
tify him as “ag top Mafia fig.
ure” who watched over “the
concealed interests in Las
Vegas casinos of the Chicago
underworld.”

Roselli hag admitted to
friends that he was a rum run.
ner during the Roaring Twen-
es. Operating along the East
Coast, he learned how to evade
Coast Guard cutters and po-
- {ice patrols:

His name later became
linked with the biggest names
in the Chicago and Los Ange.
-jles underworlds. He also de.
veloped contacts in the Cuban
underworld before Castro took
over the Havana gambling ca.
sinog.

~ | Under Pressure from the:
"firearms lobby, the Treasury
‘Department hag’ falled to en. -:
force a vital section of the *
1968 federal firearms act. . : > |
The law was passed after

the murders of Sen: Robert : :
Kennedy and Dr. Martin Lue . +
ther King. It authorizes the .
Treasury Secretary to require

full reports of all firearms and
ammunition sales,

in Cuba." However, the Chi. a
cago gangster took no direct birth records had je forged,|law has. been ‘in force, the
part In the assassination plot. [that his name was real Fi. /Treasury Department hay ig.
Roselli made midnight Uppe Sacco and that he had/Nored this key provision. The
coma to this country from/sun Industry has complained,

, {dashes to Cuba with his hired
He had the right back-] assassing in twin powerboats, Italy as a child. He was con-Jit would be a bookkeeping:
victed for failing to register ag /hightmare.

ground for a hush-hush MiSs! Once a Cuban -patrol ahip i
Sion that the CIA was Dlan-/turned its guns on his dark. anallen - ; The federal government, .
ning in 1981. As part of the ened boat, tore a hole:in the “He was also convicted for; Which would have to compiles
Bay of Pigs Invasion, the CIA | bottom and sank the boat, Ro- conspiracy to ‘rig card games/All the sales data, hag alsox
hoped to knock off Castro and! sellt wag fished out of thelat Los Angeles’ exclusive} been’ reluctant to spend the
leave Cuba leaderless, water by the other boat,:which Friar's Club, ; $100 million it would cost for.

escaped into the shadows, Of Roselli’s two CIA asso-(computers and staff to maine

Rieks Neck . | In earlier columns, we re. clates, Harvey has now retired (tain the firearms files.
Roselli was recruited for the @ 1971. Bell-Mccture Syndicate, 1

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By Jack (dnderson_

The plot to kill Cuban dic-
tator Fidel Castro, hidden for
10 years from the publie, raises
some ugly questions that high
officials would rather keep
buried deep inside the Central
Intelligence Agency.

sassinate any other leaders?

Sen. George Smathers, one of
John F. Kennedy's closest

dent suspected that the CIA
had arranged the shootings of
‘the Dominican Republic's Ra-
fael Trujillo in 1961 and South
'Vietnam’s Ngo Dinh Diem in
11963, :
| 2. Did President Kennedy
personally. sanction the plot
;against Castro? The prepara-
‘rations to assassinate the Cu-
‘ban dictator began during the
‘last months of the Eisenhower
‘administration as part of the
;Bay of Pigs scheme. All six
attempts, however, were made
“during 1961-63 when Me. Ken-
nedy occupied the White
House. Smathers told us he
once spoke to the late’ Presi-
‘:dent about assassinating Cas-
‘tro. Mr. Kennedy merely
‘rolled back his eyes, recalled
‘Smathers, as if to indicate the
‘tidea was too wild to discuss.
Subsequently, Mr. Kennedy
told Smathers of his suspicion
that the CIA may have been

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behind the Trujillo and Diem
assassinations. . -
3. Did the late Robert Ken-

-inedy know about the assassina-

tion attempts? After the Bay
of Pigs fiasco, President Ken-
nedy swore to friends he
would like “to splinter the CIA

in a thousand pieces and scat-|forces that may have brought| it would not be condoned
1. Has the CIA tried to as-jter it-to the winds.” He put about vhis x rr

his brother, Robert, in charge

herd on. the agency. ;
4. Could the plot against

President Kennedy? The late
President was murdered nine
months after the last assassi-
nation team was caught on a
Havana rooftop with high-
powered rifles. Presumably,
they were subjected to fiend-
ish tortures until they told all
they knew. None of the assas-
sination teams, however, had
direct knowledge of the CIA
Involvement. The CIA instl-
gators had represented them-
selves as oilmen seeking re-
venge against Castro: for his
seizure of oil holdings.

PLOT BACKFIRE?

Former associates recall
that Robert Kennedy, deep-
ly despondent, went into semi-
seclusion after, his brother's
assassination. Could he have
been tormented by more than
natural grief? He certainly
learned that the assassin, Lee
Harvey Oswald, had been ac-
live in the pro-Castro move-

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Caste Plot Raises Jgly Questions

ment and had traveled to
Mexico to visit the Cuban
Embassy a few weeks before
the dreadful day ia Dallas.
Could Boh Kennedy have
been plagued by the terrible
thought that the CIA plot,
which be must at least have
condoned, put. into motion

brother’s martyr
dom? wy

attempts against Castro, he
said. He wag aware, he volun-

friends, told us the late Presi-lCastro have backfired against|/teered, only that Sen. Smath-

ers had talked to the late
President about eliminating
Castro. :

Smathers told us that Presi-
dent Kennedy seemed “horri-
fied” at the jdpa of political
assassinationy '#}|‘remember
him saying,” recalled Smath-
ers, “that the CIA frequently
did things he di8n't know
about, and he was unhappy
about It. He complained that
the CIA was almost autono-
mous. ; .

“He told me he believed the
CIA had arranged to have
Diem and Trujillo bumped off.
He was pretty well shocked
about that. He thought it was
a stupid thing to do, and he
wanted to get control of what
the CIA was doing.”

But McCone, disagreeing
vigorously, told us that “no
plot was authorized or impie-
mented” to assassinate Castro,
Trujillo, Diem or anyone else.

“During those days of ten-

sion, there was a wide spec-
trum of plans ranging from
one extreme to another,”
McCone admitted. “Whenever
this subject (assassinating Cas-
tra) was brought up—and- jt
was — it was rejected imme-
diately on two grounds, Fiat,
> By
anybody. Second, it wouldn't

. . n
John McCone, who headed thelof the CIA with irstructlons| The last surviving brother, have achieved anything.

CIA during the six attempts|to shake it up. The CIA madelgen. Ted Kennedy (D-Maas},
to knock off Castro, deniedjfive attempts on Castro’d life|could give us no Insight. His places, McCone acknowledged,
emphatically that the CIA haslafter the Bay of Pigs whlle/brothers had never spoken to
tried to kill anyone. But ex-/Robert Kennedy was ridingihim about any asgassination

There was also talk in high

of supporting a coup to oust
Diem. The former CIA dl-
rector sald he had argued
against this at a secret session
with both Kennedy brothers.
He had contended that there
was no one strong enough. to
take Diem's place and that a
coup, therefore, would bring
“political upheaval.” .
“IT told the President and
Bobby together,” recalled Mc-
Cone, “that if I were running
a baseball team and had only
one pitcher, I wouldn't tak
him out of the game.” ‘os
The November, 1963, coup
eaught the United States com-
pletely by surprise, he said.
While the plotters were mov-
ing on the palace, he sald,
then-Ambassador Henry Cabot
Lodge was visiting Diem.
Adm, Ulysses Sharp, then our
Pacific commander, had also
been present, but had left
early to go to the airport.
McCone said _— President ©
Diem escaped through a tun-
nel but was caught in nearby
Cholon and “shot in a staticn
wagon.”

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By Jack {Anderson jtor before the motley invad- late against President Ken-:coniplete with secret trysts at
ers landed on the island. Their! nedy. glittering Miamt Beach hotels
arrival was expected to touch! To set up the Casiro assassi-;and midnight powerboat
off a general uprising, which |nation, the CIA enlisted Rob-: dashes to secret landing spots
ix assassination attempt the Communist militia would oe ea ore FBI on the Cuban coast. Once, Ro-
s assassinatio : pts|,— agen shadowy contacts, | se}]]' P
against Cuba’s Fidel Castro. have had more trouble putting who had handled other under- under poat was shot out from
For 10 years, only a few key |4own without the charismatic | cover assignments for the CIA] For the first try, the CIA
people have known the terri-|Castro to lead them. out of his Washington public | furnished Roselli with speclal
ble secret. They have sworn! After the first attempt|relations- office. He later poison capsules to slip into
never to talk, Yet we have falled, five more assassination|™Oved to Las Vegas to head/ Castro's food. The poison was
learned the detalls from teams were sent to Cubs, The |UP billionaire Howard Hughes supposed to ‘ake three days to
sources whose credentials are ; Nevada operations. act. By the time Castro died
beyond question. last team reportedly made it) Maheu recruited John Ro-'his system would throw off all
We spoke to John McCone,jto a rooftop within shooting|selli, a rcuggediy . handsome! traces of the poison, so he
who headed the CIA at the/distance of Castro before they | gambler with contacts in both iwould appear to be the vietim
time of the assassination at-|were apprehended. This hap-;the American and Cuban Un-| of a natural if mysterious ail-
tempts. He acknowledged the/pened around the last of Feb. derworlds, to arrange the as-| ment. 7 a,
idea had been discussed Inside ruary or first of March, 1963. /sassination. The dapper, hawk- Roselli arranged with a
the CIA but insisted it had/ Nine months later, Presl-jfaced Roselli, - formerly mar- Cuban, related to one of Cas.
been “rejected immedi-|dent Kennedy was gunned ried to movie actress June jtro's chefs, to plant the deadly
ately.” He vigorously denled|down in Dallas by Lee Harvey |Lang, was a power in the | pellets: in the dictator's food.
that the CIA had ever particl-|Oswald, a fanatle who pre-;movie Industry until his COn-1On March 13, 1961, Roselli de.
pated in any plot on Castro's/viously had agitated for Cas-|viction with racketeer Willie lhivered the capsules to his con-
life. Asked whether the at-ltro in New Orleans and had! Bioff in a million-dollar Holly-'tact at Miami Beach's glamor-
tempts could have heen made| made a mysterious trip to the; wood labor shakedown. The! ous Fontainebleau Hotel,
with his knowledge, he re-/Cuban Embassy in Mexico|CIA assigned two of its most | A couple of weeks later, Just
plied: “It could net have hap-|City. trusted operatives, William ‘about the right time for the
pened.” Among those privy to the| Harvey and James (Big Jim) | plot to. have been carried out,
We have complete confl-/CIA conspiracy, there is stil} a: O'Connell, to the hush-hush | 4 report out of Havana said
ence, however, In ourjn ag gin g suspicion—unsup- | murder mission. Using phony! Castro was it. But he re.
sources. ported by the Warren Com-|names, they accompanied Ro-legvered before the Bay of Pigs
The plot to knock off Castro mission's findings—that Cas-|selli on trips fo Miami to line invasion on April 17, 1961,
began as part of the Bay of/tro became aware of the U.S./up the assassination teams. | Four more attempts were
Pigs operation. The intent was] plot upon his life and some-| The full story reads like the ‘made on Castro's life,
to eliminate the Cuban dicta-|how recruited Oswald to retal- script of a James Bond movie, @ 1971, Bell-MeClure Syndicate. Ine,

Locked in the darkest re-
cesses of the Central Intelli-
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BY JACK ANDERSON
with Les Whitten
-WASHINGTON—Press account: “have -
identified Cuba’s Fidel Castro as (ir target
_ Of an unsuccessful CIA assassinati:n plot. |
The headlines couldn't have eenit.at a

.. worse time for Secretary of State Henry Kise _

singer, He is in the thick of “mos! Jeli

negotiations,” according to our Whit: House |

sources, to restore some gee
- kind of diplomatic rela- + 4

Actually, we reported |

as far back as Jan. 18, f
_, 1971, that the CIA had ar [3
ranged six assassination §
' attempts against Castro

“that the story has been |

revived, it might be use- // :

_ ful to recount the details. EZizh. "a

The plot began as part - Anderson

, of the discredited Bay of Pigs operation. |
The strategy was to eliminate the Cuban

.. leader before the CIA invasion. force landed-

on the island. ,
To carry out the assassination, the CIA

. selected an underworld figure who could be-
" disowned. He was hawk-faced John Roselli,
identified in confidential FBI files as “‘a top
Mafia figure” who watched over “‘the con-

+ cealed interests in Las Vegas casinos of the

. Chicago underworld.” .
Roselli represented himself as an oi] man
. seeking revenge against Castro for his sei-
sure of oil holdings. : .
For the first try, the CIA furnished Ro-
selli with special poison capsules to slip
‘ into Castro’s food, The poison was supposed
* to take three days to act. By the time Cas-
‘tra died, his system would throw off all
traces of the poison, so he would appear to
‘ be the victim of a natural if mysterious ail _
ment, . .
Roselli arranged with a Cuban, related to

_ But he recovered in time to rout the Bay of

ob

. teams equipped with high-powered tifles,

«Nine months later, President Kennedy’
- was gunned down in Dallas by Lee Harvey
’ “Oswald, a fanatic who had been active in the

ae

‘vasion failed, the CIA cOntinued trying to
get rid of Castro, The Cuban who had

“ seen again. .
_. Roselli arranged for triple-strength cap. .
' sules to be slipped into Castro's food several
| weeks after.the Bay of Pigs. But once again, |
the plot failed and the conspirators disap. _

:. The. assassination teams never got a shot

- at Castro, although the CIA learned that the

' last group reached a rooftop within range, .
.This’ occurred around the last of February:

‘ported by the Warren Commission’s findings

“the U.S. plot upon his life and, therefore,
.,may have recruited Oswald to retaliate
one of Castro's chefs, to plant the deadly - . .

i . . a 7 . wv :

pellets In the dictator's food. On-March 13,
1961, Roselli delivered the capsules to hig
contact at Miami Beach’s glamorous Fon
tainebleau Hotel... .  _- a .
A couple weeks later, just about the right -
time for the plot to’have been carried out, a
report out of Havana said Castro was ill,

|

Pigs .invasion on April 17, 1961; .
Although both the murder plot and the in-

sneaked the poison into Havana was never

peared: : : ;
Four more attempts were made on Case
tro’s life. thereafter, using assassination

explosives and two-way radios, Roselli per.
sonally made midnight powerboat dashes to |
deliver the teams at secret landing spots on
the Cuban coast. oS _ 4

or first of March, 1963. .

pro-Castro movement and had paid a myste- |
rious call upon the Cuban embassy in Mex- ©
ico City a few weeks before the dreadful day
in Dailas. : . :
Sources familiar with the CIA conspiracy
can’t shake a nagging suspicion—unsup-

-~that Castro may have became aware of

against President Kennedy,

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CIA Plots Against
i By Jack Anderson
and Les Whitten

Press accounts have identi-
fied Cuba’s Fidel Castro as the
larget of an unsuccessful CLA
assassination plot.

The headlines couldn't have
come ata worse time far Secre-
tory of State Henry A. Kissinger.
fle isin the thick of “most deli-
eate nevotiations,” aecarding to
nur White House sourees, ty re~
Store some kind of diplomatic
relationship with Cuba,

Actually, we reported as far
back as Jan. 18, 1971, that the
CIA had arranged six assassing-
tion attempts against Castro in
the early 1960s. Now that the
story has been revived, it minht
be useful to recount the details.

The plot began as pact of the
discredited Ray of Pigs opera.
tian, The strategy was to elimi.
nate the Cuban leader belore
the CIA invasion force landed
on the island. Without the char.
ismatic Castro, it was thouyzlit,
the defenders would -hecome
demoralized and disorganized,

To carry out the assassination,
[the CIA selected an underworld
fivure who eould be disowned.
ile was hawk-faced John do
selli, identified in confidential
FRI files asa top Mafia figure”

~

{Who watched over “the con-
cealed interests in Las Vegas
casinos of the Chicago under-
world.” :

loselli's CLA contacts were
William Harvey and James
Connell, . whe. accompanied
im on hush-hush tripsto Miami
lo line up the assassination
foams. No one else was told,
however, of the CIA's role in the
indrder mission.

‘Roselli: represented himself
as an oilinan seeking revenge
azuinst Casten for his seizure of
ou holdings. The assassination
weapons were also carefully se-
lected froin foreign makes,
mnastly Releian, to prevent any
fink to the United States. .

Each attempt to kill Castro
Was meticulously planned, like
an episode from the TV draina
“Mission Impossible.” For the
lirst try, the CIA furnished Ro-
selli with special poison cap-
sules to slip into Castro’s food.

The poison was supposed to
fake three days to act, By the
uine Castro died, - his system
would throw off all traces of the
poison, so he would appear to
he the victim of a natural if mys-
terious ailment,

Rosclti arranged with a Cu-
ban, related to one of Castro's
ehels, to plant the deadly

1 O0 ne seen os ate te seen ne as oop

pel-jdeliver the teans

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}

Castro Recounte

lets in’ the dictator's food. On
March 13, 1961, Roselli detiy-
ered the capsules to his contact
at Miami Beach's Fontaine.
bleau Hotel, °

A couple of weeks later, Just
about the right time for the plot
to have been carried out, a re-
Port out of Havana said Castro
was iH. But he recovered in time
lo rout the Bay of Pigs invasion
on April 17, 1961, :

Although both the waurder
plot and the invasion failed, the
CIA continued trying to get rid
of Castro. The Cuban who had
sneaked the poison into Havana
Was never seen again. There-
fore, the CLA, unsure whether
the plotters had failed or the
poison hadnt been strom
enough, decided ‘ta try again
with a more powerful dose

Roselli arranged for triple.
strength capsules te be slipped
into Castro's food several weeks
after the Bay of Pigs. But once
again, the plot failed and the
conspirators disappeared.

Four more attempts were’
made on Castro's life, thereafter
USiNE assassination teams
equipped with high-powered
tifles, explosives and. two-way
radios, Kosellt personally made
midnight powerbodt dashes ta
atisecret Land-|

ing spots onthe Cuban -

The assassination:
never pot a shot at Castr
though the CIA learned th.
lust group reached a -ro
within range. This ocet
around the last of Februa
first of March, 1963.

Nine months later, Pres,
Kennedy was gunned dow
Dallas by Lee Harvey Osi
a fanatic whe had beea act:
the pra-Castro movement
had paid a mysterious call i
the Cuban Embassy in Me
City a few weeks hefore
dreadful day in Dallas

Sources familiar with the
conspiracy can't shake a
sing SUSPiclon—Unsupporte
the Warren Commission's {
invs—that Castro may have
come aware of the US.
upon his life and, theref
may have recruited Oswals.
retaliate against President b
nedy. .
Footnote: Suurces faim ~
with the seeret review of
CIA's activities have now
knowledged that Castro, as
reperted four years agu, >
marked for assassination by
CHA. A CIA spokesman refu:
to comment.

“VOGS, United Feature Syndicate, lar


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the CLA. in a scheme to dispatch
Fidel Castro have now both been mur.

and the police have Pronounced:
incidents “Bangland-stylg Killings.”
The phrase “Bangland-style killing»

farely with much enthusiasm, *"
This may be because Police succesg

to get them into the World series of
detection, with the result that inces-
Sant failure May have dulled. their
' appetite for. the hunt, m,

T, it may be decause Policemen
believe the Subjects of “gangland-style
killings’? aren't worth Working over.

that once a murder has’ been called
Perpetrator almost invariably ‘fails to
occur, . Te a

This raises the ‘question: whether
.“Bangland-style" “murders: might pos.

don't come from’ gangland, Consider
‘the Roselli Case, The body is found in

If you and I know this, reader, does
it mot follow that it is also known by,
let us say, some hot-tempered waiter

undertipping for years? -

Tf that waiter wanted to’ take his
revenge and get away with it, is it

death in public with a tureen of lobster.

This is not to suggest that the police |
Ought to be giving Roselli's Waiters

clas

ee

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Oaly a Ho-Hum Murder

dered after discussing ‘their C.LAL en. -
’ terprise with the United States Senate, .

has the cozy resonance of “home-styia,

at nabbing Perpetrators of “gangland. .
Style killings" has never been such as -

“gangland-style,” apprehension of the -

sibly be catching among people who .

. Sangland-style Killing.” ~

whom Roselli has Been * consistently °.

. Bangland memberg “gangland-styie"

' Ought to be doing.

don’t approve of it; an
‘that there j

‘
‘

| $f 24/20

corner greasy spoon can engage in | :
“home-style cooking. jN ye

The one special Fequirememt ig

Victim who is @ bona fide Citizen ‘of -
Pp

The corollary of ‘this fact’ ty that
&angland People are peculiarly vulner=

_tion becomes manifest, yoy are’ en-
tirely Prepared to be Sent off “gang.
Jand-style by your Colleagues, Those «
are the rules of the lang, 7

OBSERVER ae

Prematurely, Some barber who hates

your Sideburns—to have. SOmebody like \
‘this do the Job on you and get away |
. with it because it's done “gangland. :

& quietly murmured, “Jug;

You will have been the victim, not
Only of mu der, but also of discrimina-

tion, for it is only your membership :

about nonmembers of Bangland Killing
but my hunch is that they ‘take a
sterner view of it than: they do of

I know very well that gangland folks
d to make sure


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| Ouly a Ho-l

: ay
By Russel Baker.

The gangsters Sam Giancana and
John Roselli who were associated with
. the CLA, in a scheme to dispatch
Fidel Castro have now bath been ‘mure

dered after discussing their C.LA. ens -

' terprise with the United States Senate,

and the police have Pronounced: the ‘

incidertts “gangland-style killings.”
The phrase “gangland-style killing”

has the cozy resonance of “home-style .

cooking,” perhaps because both sug-
gest the Intimacy of hearth and fire
with nobody but us family gathered
round and nobody else welcome, Jack.
These family affairs are, of course,
meddled into by the constabulary, but
tarely with much enthusiasm. Bee
This may be because police success
at nabbing perpetrators of “gattgland-
Style killings” has never been such as
to get them into the world series of
detection, with the result that inces-
sant failure may have ‘dulled. their
' appetite for. the hunt. 4
Or, it may be because policemen
. believe the subjects of “gangiand-style
killings” aren’t worth working over-

time for. I don’t know, amd] certainly

don’t mean. to impute either languor,
timidity or indifference to America’s
- homicide squads. 1 simply point out
that once a murder has been called
“gangland-style,” apprehension of ithe
Perpetrator almost invariably fails: to
occur, nt
This raises the. question: whether
“gangland-style” ‘murders’ might pos-
.sibly be catching among people who
don’t come from gangland. Consider
the Roselli case. The body is found’ in
the customary barrel, with the cus~
tomary weights, in the customary
‘water. It bears the customary bullet
holes. Roselli’s publicized Standing’ in
gangland seems to leave an open-and-

shut as soon as possible...

If you and I know this, reader, does
it mot follow that it is also known by,
let us say, some hot-tempered waiter

whom Roselli has been-.consistently *

undertipping for years? _ oy
If that waiter wanted to take his
revenge and get away with it, is ‘it

not logical that he would do it “gang. '

land-style,” so the police could forget
it, rather than by. scalding Roselli to
death in public with a tureen.of lobster-
bisque? ae ;

This is not to suggest that the’ police | -

ought to be giving - Roselli’s waiters:
the third degree, but merely.to point.
out that gangland can have no monop-
oly on “gangland-style killing.” Any-

_ body with a barrel, some concrete and --
& capacious expanse ‘of Water. ‘can. ©
_ engage in it, just as readily as. your

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corner greasy spoon can engage In
“home-style cooking.” '

The one special requirement ig

Victim who is a bong fide citizen of -

gangland, Obviously, a. philandering
husband cannot do in a loyal wife of |
40 years “gangland-style” and

the police not to lift an eyebrow, Un- —

less the subject is the real gangland
thing, it won't work, a

The corollary of ‘this fact fy that
gangland people are peculiarly vulner.
able to “gangland-style” murder by.

‘devious non-ganglanders, who have no
- tight to get away with it. -

This must ‘be infuriating to them.
Imagine that you are an emlnert..
Statesman of gangland, and the vexae
tion becomes manifest. You are’ ene
tirely prepared to be sent off “gang-

land-style” by your colleagues, Those |

are the rules of the land,

Moreover, if they complete the job,

you. wouldn't dream of telling the po- ;
lice who did it, even if you could. That —
would violate the rules of the sports« .
manship governing gangland, In gang.

_dand, good Sports don’t tell,

But to have some alien from the’
outer world—some straight-Jake cous-
in who. wants his share of your will.

OBSERVER.

Prematurely, some barber who hates
your sideburns—to have. somebody like

this do the job’on you and get away .

_ with it because it’s done “gangland- .

style’—Ah, my friend, that must seem
@ cruel injustice. ss we

" Such a bad: egg as that you would

surely betray to the cops. How infuri-

ating it would be if they looked at the -

barrel, the .concrete, the water,. the

- bullet holes and closed the case with

@ quietly murmured, “Just another

: n _ Bangland-style killing.” -
shut case, which the police will quietly -

You-will have been the victim, -not

only of murder, but.also of discrimina-

tion, for it is only your membership
in gangland that prevents ‘the police
from extending themselves: to bring

‘your persecutor to justice,

~ P'do not know how policemert feet

‘about nonmembers of gangland killing |

gangland members “gangland-style,”
but my hunch is. that ‘they ‘take a
sterner view of it than they do of
gangland men bumping off each other.
The average cop probably thinks it is -

-not the kind of thing decent people -

ought to be doing. fos
' Uknow very well that gangland folks

“don’t approve of it, and to make sure
. that there is no misunderstanding, 1
“want to assure them that. haven't .

‘the heart to swat a fly, myself, and,

“what's: more, I've never-beert-any good |

With concrete,

rr ra tg

tum Murder og

lodiee

Terrorist Activities
Charged to Cubans ,
By Police in Miami

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 (UPI):
—Militant pro-Castro and anti-|!
{Castro groups in the Miamil!
area are engaged in terrorist|&
activities both in and outsidelt
the United States, according tole
testimony given before a Sen-
ate subcommittee and released|R
today. . . *

The testimony came last May|re
before a Judiciary subcommit-|w
{tee on internal security headed/g:

||that as many as 50 Cuban
froups of various shadings hadith
been operating in Miami at anyla
one time, many of them en-iT
gaged Jin violent plots invoiving|r
local actions and activities in|r
Mexico, Central and South!/V
America and Cuba itself. Ss
Lieut. Thomas Lyons, wholD
has been with:the Dade County/o
. Public. Safety Department forjh
ax more than nine years, and Raul
. J, Diaz, of the department's or-

c
d
ganized crime, terrorist and se-
curity unit, told of efforts to/C
track down terrorist elements/p
in the greater Miami area. a
Lieutenant Lyons said mostle
Cubans in the area were hard-|c¢
working and industrious; butly
some individuals “use Dadee
County as a base for interna-|1
tional terrorism ‘against allied|;
governments of Cuba, Cubanic
'|shipping, Communists, purport.
ed Communists and individuals}:
who take a stand against their
terroristic-type tactics.” ” :
During the last two years,
Lieutenant Lyons said, there
have been four homicides “with
strong indicators on each that
the motivations. were political
in nature and terroristic by de-
sign.”- . .
Mr. Diaz'said that some. Cas-
tro groups had infiltrated exile}

organizations and that’ there}:
were plans to assassinate Latin-
American diplomats and for-|
eign ministers. .

Lieutenant Lyons said his
unit received Information from
a confidential source early this|¢

year ‘that ‘there ‘i
attempt on the life of Secretary

of State Henry A. “Kissinger (3

fc ” Costa Rica.

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by Senator James O. Eastland,|ar:
Democrat of Mississippi. It saidjri

during his February.,visit,; to] ¢

_ The Federal Bureau of Inves-| |
_|Ugation and the Secret Service
were notified, he said, A well-
known fugitive exile, Orlando

Two weeks ago, the body of
‘jan underworld figure, John

Cubans to kill Mr, Casiro, Mr.

1Ne Boston Gioy, Monday, Ay ust “iyi  [Q y Rivero némed Bosch as One of the 1g an Castre jy
e » Aug . :

JACK A NDERSON :

Parole ang fled to Venezuela ir 1974,

j “Z00ka while it was Moored in Miami. Hp Jumped Fede.
e , : Months later, he was reported tg be in Curacao, pr
- : ! tected by Chilean gunmen, He bragged, according to 4
} O QO cq] : . Feports, of his “money, friends and Protection.”
; ; ‘ ‘ . so Florida's Dade County Public Safety Department, be
. . . . : Cause of the huge Cuban Population in Miami, has &xcellen

ties throughout Latin America. Tn early 1976, the county’:

& 8 . .
KG SSin er . | terrorist e Pert, Lt. Thomas Lynch, pickeg up some electri.
. S s _ fying news, . ee

re _ : ‘ timony: « e received information from confidential Sourc
_ es." he Swore, “that there was 80ing to be an attempt on the
Se 1. life of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger --» We passed the
oo é So information ‘on to the FBI, and they had also received the
. ; . _ | fo information and we Notified the Secret Service, ag they
: w 1 : TON A d plot ¢ inate § > have the Protective duty for the Secretary’ of State.”
ASHING — A reporte Plot to assassinate Sec. . , . —_
retary of State Henry Kissinger in Costa Rica six Months The plot was linked to pissinger s two-day Stay in Cos.
; ago was blocked by US and Costa Rican ‘authorities four' 1 ta qn rile ro Cg ne Hes
: : t - 2 held ona alse pass
days before it was SUPposed : be ed ou test OUt Of the cou .
We have Pieced together t © story from Secret testimn. - ang. . oe
- AY before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee and: unteg eater false a, or cn a tring the
: : ; . ; + rear ey.) a fa s . : . .
sources @rviews with (Cuban *xiles and us “intelligence pop Proved in court that he hoped to knock oft Kissinger, He ig
; : | nowat large Somewhere in Latin America, _ a
A Nn terrorist named Orlando Bosch Avila was re | : oe a) hg
Ported tg be gunning for. Kissinger. The attempt on they . :
fn Secretary's life was expected, according tg Underground

active in the anti-Castro underground in Miami's little
avana. But he later Te-defected tg Cuba where he gave q
fascinating interview, :

“T have known Privately Since 1972," he Said, "Yabout)
the plan to @ssassinate the US Secretary of State." He said
the plot had! taken “certain form" by 1973 and had been
“actualizeg” by 1974, ,

Then, ina reference to Our 1974 columns, he added:
f~ “This fact Which, } repeat, I've known Privately, has been Lo '
. corroborated by the US Journalist Jack Anderson,"

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Cuban Link to JFK Dea th

By Ronald Kessler and Laurence Stern
"' Washington Post Staft Writers
Long before his recent murder,

John Rosselli, the CIA’s underworld
recruit in attempts to kill Fidel Cas.
tro, had been privately claiming that
agents of the Cuban premier, in retall-
ation, were involved in the assassina-
_ tion of President John F. Kennedy,
Rosselli’s belief in a Cuban connec-
tion to the Kennedy assassination was
expressed through his attorney, Ed.-
ward P. Morgan, to the FBI as long
ago as March, 1967, and also in private
conversations with a longtime’ associ- .
ate of Rosselli who participated in
meetings between Rosselli and the
CIA, t .
"An FBI “blind memorandum" on
an interview with Morgan dated
March 21, 1967, was included, without

| 4 ROSSELLI, From Al

a

cy
’ sanceé and the subsequent discovery of

“hls body in an ou drum in Florida
‘swaters, The Washington Post, however,
has confirmed that Morgan and Rosselli
“Were the sources of the testimony that 7

" aBuggested a Cuban Tole in the Ken. ">
* nedy murder, «.” ane

- 9elli’s contacts in the early 19605 with °

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‘for the CIA schemes against the Cu.

& Morgan’s account, according ‘to a,"
ssumMiary of the FBI interview, was -
«that Rosselli had Teached his conclu: -;
sion about a Cuban connection to the ‘
‘Kennedy Assassination - from... !
é“teedback” furnished by sources close ’
ato Castro who were involved in the CIA
plots to assassinate the Cuban leader.’ .
= “His (Morgan’s) clients were aware
aot the identity of some of the individ.
puals who, came to the United States:
sfor this purpose and he understood
., that two sueh individuals were now in:
tthe state of New Jersey,” the FBI in:
yterview summary stated: ips
iA long-time associate .of Rosselli. ' |
wo was interviewed separate! by 6
“The Washington Post, said there wae

i

| Re question in the: slain mobsters eb,
Kennedy was */ ,
t

‘mind. that Président
skilled ‘on Castro's behalf in reprisa’

‘ban leader, oo
“He was positive: he was sure.” said-. |
the associate, who knew Rosselli well: -« ”
<and was in contact with him before -— ;
‘Rosselli disappeared from his Florida:
home on July 28. The associate, who
foes not want to be identified pub. .
Jicly, is scheduled to be interviewed ;
this week by Dade County, Fla, homi-’
‘cide detectives, He was a party. to Ros.

CIA case officers Overseeing the at.
<empts to assassinate Castro, 24,
> Despite occasional speculation, the :
collective conclusion of all Official | i!
‘U.S. government investigations into
the Kennedy assassination—including

the Warren Commission, the FBI and

‘the Ci[A—has been that there was no
evidence that implicated the Castro
Zovernment. or anv of ita neeante
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identification of the interviewee, in
last June’s Senate Intelligence Com.

 mittee’s report on the role of the in.

telligence conmiunity in the Kennedy
assassination investigation.

Morgan told the FBI that Rosselli
and another Morgan client had in-
formed him that Castro became aware
of CIA assassination conspiracies
against him and “thereafter employed
teams of individuals who were dis-
patched to the United States for the

. purpose of assassinaling Mr, Ken-

nedy.”

Because neither Morgan nor Hos-
sclli was identified in the Senate re-
port. the significance of that portion
of the 106-page document was dis-
counted at the time it was published
in June, before Rosselli’s disappear-

‘See ROSSELLI, A8; Col. 1

« However, the CIA’s involvement in
the schemes to assassinate Castro
Was not divulged to the Warren Com-
mission. and knowledge of them was
tonfined until 1967 to a smail, elite
‘eiréle of the U.S. intelligence commu-
Nity. President Johnson apparently |
first learned about the schemes only
after a March 7, 1967, column by the:
late Drew “Person, -which prompted
Johnson to order a CIA investigation
of the highly sensitive episode. po
, Fullsdetails of the ClA-underworld |
* collusion in the" plots to kill Castro
id not surface publicly until the pub. |
fication last yeat of the Senate Intelli-
gence ‘Committee's assassination re-
port and the ensuing report last June
$n the ‘possible roie of the intelligence
agenciés in the Kennedy assassination
and ingestigation : ities.
, The body of Rosselli, who lived’
flamboyantly in a world of mobsters,
politicians and playgirls, was found
“#wo weeks ago in an inverted oil drum
weighted with chains but buoyed by.

j gases ‘from decomposition on the’

. @cean's surface off thecoast of Miami. -
c+ The spbelfie cause of death was deter. -
"mined by an autopsy to be asphyxia.

tion. 3°
) Last‘year, an underworld colleague
of Roselli, Sam -(Momo) Giancana,
yho algo: had. beqn recruited by the j:
LTA ity theleffort te Kill Gastro: was!
found. shot’ to death in ‘his Chicago !
home in‘what police described as a
. Highly professional job by assailants :
“. ho penelraled the miobster’s - per- :
gonal security ‘screen, Gianecana was
due to testify before the Senate Intel-
gence Committee ‘shortly after’ hls
emise, . a
| Neither murder has been solved. ‘
4 The possibility that Rosselli’s mur-
der might have been related to his
Senate testimony on the CIA schemes *
fo kill Castro hag brought the FBI
into the investigation at the request
at Attorney General Edward H. Levi.

fave taal y Santos Tra awite
Campa. Fla, whose one-lime Havana
gombling enterprises fell hostage in
1999 to the Cuban revolution—in plot
avainst Castro had been a-closely held
secret within the top echelons of the
CHA and FBI until recently,

:

' The tangled chronology:
 Vhe fe gy of suppres.
yon and eventual disclosure, although
detailed in the June report, has Te-
feed ite public attention. Rossel
§ er.adds significanc :
gents 5 ignificance to those
‘4 Hereiis the se | pi
5 quence, pieced to-.'
gether from the testimony given to "
gena e Intelligence investigators:
+ Columnist Drew Pearson went lo

gy

wt
as

the late Chief Justice of the United
States Earl Warren late in January.
1967, and told him that a Washington
lawyer had confided to him that one
of hig clients said the United States
“had attempted }
Castro in the early 1960s and Castro
had decided to retaliate.”

Warren declined Pearson’s sugses- -
tion that he see the lawyer, who was
Edward Morgan. Warren referred the
matter to then Secret Service Direc-
tor James J. Rowley, who. on Feb. 18,
1967, wrote FBI Director J.:, Edgar Ho-
over. informing him of the allegations.

Hoover sent the Rowley letter to six
senior bureau officials on an “eyes:
only” basis. There is no record of FBI
meetings or discussions of. those alle-
gations. At that point the sensitive let-
ter bounced back and forth in the
higher reaches of the FBI bureauc-

«

racy. ; i
The job of responding to Rowley’s ”
letter was assigned to the supervisor |
. of the FBI's General Investigative Di-
., vision who was given responsiility for .
the overall assassination investigation ©
in March 1964. at
This official's job was, complicated
py the fact that he had never been in-
‘formed of what Hoover and his closest
" circle of eonfidants in the FBI jearned °
early In i962—that the CIA was |
deeply involved — in
attempts against Castro. and promi: -
nent American underworld figures, in- |
cluding Rosselli and. Giancana, ‘had
been recruited for the attempts. eee mg
So on Feb. 15, 1967. the FBI official »
prepared a draft reply to the Rowley.
letter for his superiors saying “our in--
», westigation uncovered, no, evidence in-
‘Vajeating Fidel Castro officials of the
., Cuban Government were involved=
with Lee’ Harvey, Oswald: in the! assase 4
sination of President Kennedy. This -
bureau is not conducting any investi-’
gation regardin
FBI official adde
that “everyone.in. the higher echelons
read this...” : ue
Drew Pearson went

1
t
Py

ahead and pub-

lished a column on March 7, 1967, ref--. 1: ploye
|; were

A schemes

* erring to reports that: Cl
against Castro’s life ib

4 have resulted

f tro to! aspassin

3 we!

ate President Kenne-
dy. ,

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; “son persisted, however.

: . |. committee conclude « sagt”
to assassinate Fidel because it was tne Domestic fatale \

» could

- summarizing the interview with Mor-:,

assassination | -

| " they fac

\,

g this’ matter.” The “;
din later testimony: |

1963 “may | for the purpose of assassinalin
in a counterplot by Cas- |

OnE suvectair Cartha
ent had ja cru ssage thal “the “4 “
 Sterviow ‘tracted that the F y, ne 7
inert Bio ted thatthe FAL OW. 5 OCs wee haan
ge he ue ht have rewarding
g

hedge eination of

“ "DeLoach told ‘Vats i
‘ ; ‘Natsun that it ap-
peated Morgan “Hd nat want to be in.
terviewed, and --an if he was inter-
tiewed he would probably not divulge
e identity of his sources...” Wat-

President Ken-

“Under the cireums ” .
Loach concluded ina memo for the
flies, “it appears that we have no. al ;
ternative but to interview (Morgan) *
and then furnish the results to Wat
son in blind memorandum form.” :

The interview was assigned to two
agents from the FBI's General Investi-

ative Divisi i : : :
g Division, which the Senate “Tt was not clear then—nor is it to- 1

; day—whby Morgan came forward at»
. that time to bring Rosselli’s story tof .
- the ears of the nation’s highest law-
, enforcement authorities. ~""” rn 4
‘ “It may be relevant that ‘Rosselli had ‘
* serious legal problems at the time.
In May. 1966, the FBI threatened to.
_ deport him for living:in the United }
‘ States under an assumed name unless :
!) he cooperated-in an investigation of v
the Mafia (his true name was Filippo
Saco). At the time, he reached a CIA.
“contact from the anti-Castro conspir: ,
_ acy days, CIA security director Col. ?.
Sheffield Edwards, who informed the k
FBI that Rosselli wanted to “keep?
square with the bureau” but was t
_ afraid that the mob might kill him for .
| talking. so 7
In 1967, after he was arrested for i
gambling fraud at the Friars Club in‘.

gence Division which had b
A Shosqe . cen °
sien responsibility for investigating
ible foreign invo. i
assassination. . tvement in the
Neither agent was ri
7 privy to th
knowledge. confined to Hoover and
us tap aldes, of the CIA's assassina-
ion plots against Castro. Both agents

testified eight years later that they.
were “surprised” when Morgan al
luded during the interview to US. ate
tempts to assassinate Castro. ;

wphese agents stated that they.
not evaluate the lawyer's ,
(Morgan's) allegations or question him,
in detail on them, since they had not

n briefed on the CIA assassination ;

efforts,” the Senate committee ob:
served. . ca Beverly Hills, Rosselli approached his.
On March 21, 1967, the FBI's Wash- | former CIA case’ officer, William Har- ~ .

_, vey, who sought unsuccessfully: to in- 5”
tercede in the prosecution. - tf
It was against this background that - |
Morgan went, first to Drew Pearson,’ :
and then the FBI, with Rosselli’s sen-:.
sational allegations of CIA plotting °-

Office sent headquarters .

_ ington Field:
{ a blind memorandum ;

ten copies 0
gan. - ;

In a Senate Intelligence Committee {-

interview, Mor 1.4;
was Ot ented *e “have ; acknowl: against vaste and the Cuban counter. ,
: A _ espionage direct i :
‘edged that his clients were “on the,” renne ay. irected against P resident:

Lee * and that . :
fringe of Fer pe cution in a’ Last April Rosselli told the Senate
- erime not, related to the assassination , t. Intelligence Co mmittee he had no rec.
m , anon i} otection of either receiving informa- .
tion that Castro retaliated. against!
President Kennedy or of having dis-:
cussed it with Morgan. This meant ei- -
' ther that Rosselli suffered a dramatic -

’ "Morgan said his clients “were called Q
~ upon by a governmental agency to ag -|-
-+ gist in a project which was said to. <,
pave the highest governmental ap’
proval. The project had as its purpose ..
the assassination of Fidel Castro. -_
* Elaborate plans were made, including ¢
” the infiltration -of the Cuban Govern: :
‘+ ment and the placing ‘of jiformants {
. within key posts in Cuba.” ~~
. Morgan also told the FBI. according ;
to the summary, that Castro had en -
d “teams of;. individuals who
dispatched to the United States
g Presi.

‘

dent Kennedy.”

'
a a pare invention, a serious risk
> established Washington meses
io ithee source could explain
hae di sone. and Morgan declined
be anifira that Rosselli was the client
in uestivn or to discuss either his
allegalions against the Cuban govern-
rien! on his recent testimony. |
ile internal FBI memo on the pe
interview with Morgan was sen slip
headquarters with a transi a
saying: “No further inves igatio: os.
being conducted by the Was! ington
field office unless it is advised
eohtrary by the Bureau. ‘ ‘tte
’ The Senate intelligence commi ee
in commenting on. this position, said
‘ that “had ‘the interviewing : age ts
known of the ClAunderworld 1 $s
inst Castro, they wou \
aware that the lawyer had clients Who
- had been active in the assassinatio
9
mee March 21, FBI headquarters for-
warded the Washington field oftice
memo te vi‘and the Secrel Service. Tt
general and the ret § Tt
did ‘not recommend any further =
vestigation of bho s allega ti ie
ne even ; §
day President Johnson called CIA Di-

“rector Richard M. Helms to the While _

i 3
e. The next morning, March 2: 7
Hele ordered the CI x inspector aan
repare a report on t
Fen verment in the assassination pore
—Operation © Mongoose—of whe ,
Helms had full knowledge at the ime
r ecuted. | ;
. ey May 22, Helms briefed President
Johnson on the results, There:is, wen
ever. tio evidence that Helms are
the President on the November, 63,
plot—-one of eight major’ schemes on a
Castro’s life from 1960 to 1965—to as
sassinate the Cuban leader throug ;
the employment of an agent with te
eryptonymn AMLASH. His identity
"was revealed as ‘Rolando Cubela, a
*1961 CIA “reeruit” with close access
OT Oneratives turned over assassi-
nation equipment to Cubela during a

o

Paris meeting on November 22, 1963—:

President Kennedy was killed
in Dalles, There has been subsequent
speculation that the mercurial ar
talkative Cubela was either a dow e
agent or being monitored by. (Cu an

Higence. ‘ i
uring the later days of his presi
dency, Mr. Johnson spoke cryptically
of a “Caribbean Murder Incorpo
rated” targeted against Fidel Castro.
The inspiration for that statement une

. doubtedly was the CIA inspector gen:
eral’s report he ordered Helms to have
. prepared.

Within the past year, Rosselli and

two of his co-conspirators in the Cas- |.

ination schemes have died,
Ginneana at the hands of a profes-
sional hit man and Harvey as the re.
sult of a.“massive heart attack’ a

. aan

aos. William Harvey, the widaw of
the deceased CIA official, said a
suspected no-foul play in her ;
band’s death. She did, however, ¢

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': ceived.a call after Rosselli’s disappear.
“ance in late July warning her that Cu. «.
_ bans appeared to be attempting to

‘wipe out all those who participated in
i the anti-Castro plots, se

The call, she said,came from an old
i friend who was acquainted with Ros-
: Selli’s’sister, whose name is Edith Dai.

i et,

Vesta.

~ ” the Kennedy assassination. He'replied —

gle. Mrs, Harvey said that Mrs. Daigie -

j told the mutual acquaintance that the
! Rosselli family had received a tele.
phone threat from unidentified Cu.
{ bans prior to Rosselli’s disappearance.
She also said that Rosselli had gone to
; meet the Cubans in an effort. to pro-
tect his family. - :

Mrs. Daigle could not be reached by
The Washington Post. But another sis-
ter of Rosselli said she had heard of
No such threats or warnings. .

Harvey, who died at age 60 and
whose exploits as a clandestine opera-

; tor are 'both legendary and ontrover-
‘sial within the agency, testified to the |
Senate - Intelligence Committee, He

| had-become Rosselli's case officer in’

! Operation Mongoose and supplied the .

| Mobster with poison pills, explosives, :

detonators, rifles, handguns, radios

anti-Castro Cuban agents. Harvey and

and boat radar for transmission ‘to 2,

we

. What he-had

_FBI never Satisfactorily detérmined . :
Planned todo in Cubaor .-*.

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Bay | CS f-

‘Rosselli, @ CIA superior testified .to

the Senate committee, “developed a .

close friendship.”
_ . Another’ CIA ‘official who worked
" with Rosselli, James P. O'Connell, wag
asked if he knew whether the agency
transmitted information’ to the mob-
_ Ster on possible Cuban involvement in

that he was out of the country at the

"time Kennedy was ‘Killed, and had no

further comment. -

__ Two months before-the Kennedy as-
. sassination: Lee Harvey Oswald, who
"was identified by the Warren Commis-

Sion as Kennedy’s murderer, had trav-
-eled to Mexico City in an attempt to
. gain entry to Cuba. According to the
” Warren Commission, Oswald repre.
“sented himself as the head of the New
- Orleans branch of the Fair Play for
-Cuba organization and a friend of the
Cuban Revolution, ; _

Some three months before Kennedy
was killed, Castro told Associated
Press reporter Daniel Harker that
U.S. leaders aiding terrorist plans to
eliminate Cuban leaders would them.

selves not be safe. . oe

AUS. government committee coor-
dinating ‘Policy, toward Cuba at the
time agreed there is a strong liklihood
that Castro would retaliate in some.
fashion. However, it concluded Castro
would not risk 4 Major confrontation
with the U.S. by attacking U.S. lead.

* . Qs.

On the same day Kennedy was as.
Sassirfated, a CIA officer met with a
“high-ranking Cuban official, who had
Said he would kill Castro, ta tell hi
the U.S. would provide him with ex.
plosives and a poison Pen device,

While the Senate Intelligence Con.
mittee said {t found no evidence suffi-
cient to justify a conclusion that the
Kennedy assassination was part of a
conspiracy,. it also said U.S. agencies
did not properly investigate the assas-
sination or tell the Warren Commis. -
on about the CIA plots on Castro’s

ife. .

“There {s no indication that the FBI
or the CIA directed the interviewing
of Cuban sources or sources within
the Cuban exile community,” the Sen-
ate committee said, : :

According to a former FBI official

_in charge of key aspects of the FBI's
.probe of the Kennedy murder, the

what Oswald
done in Russia. .

’

OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535

62-116395

February 24, 1976

U. S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE TO
STUDY GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS
WITH RESPECT TO INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC)

Reference is made to SSC letter to the U. S.
Department of Justice dated January 14, 1976,
requesting access to certain material and delivery of
other material maintained by the FBI,

Pursuant to request item numbered 17, we
currently have one abstract covering the areas of
inquiry available for review at FBI Headquarters by
approved personnel of the Committee.

Pursuant to request item numbered 18, we were

not able to locate a copy of a cable dated on or about
November 28, 1963, from Director, FBI, to Director,
CIA, regarding interrogation of witnesses concerning
Lee Harvey Oswald's activities in Mexico City. We are,
‘however, furnishing a copy of an FBI to CIA teletype
dated November 27, 1963, captioned "Lee Harvey Oswald,"
which advises that the interrogation of Oswald between

‘his arrest and murder had not extended to his travel to
Mexico or his contacts with Soviet establishments. The
teletype, classified "Secret," also contains details
from an Oswald letter to the Soviet Embassy,
Washington, D. C,., which were obtained from a highly -
sensitive source. ,

SECRET MATERIAL ATTACHED

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U. S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE TO
STUDY GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS
WITH RESPECT TO INTELLIGENCE
ACTIVITIES (SSC)

We are also furnishing 3 Bureau memoranda in
response to the latter part of request item 18 asking
for all memoranda prepared between November 22, 1963,
and December 30, 1963, which relate to the interrogation
of witnesses concerning Oswald's trip to Mexico City,
including his visits to the Soviet Embassy and Cuban
Consulate.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. 20530

Honorable Frank Church, Chairman
United States Senate Select Committee

on Intelligence Activities
Washington, D. C. 20510

Dear Senator Churchs

FEB 26 1976

Transmitted herewith is a memorandum with SECRET
enclosures prepared by the Federal Bureau of Investigation
in response to the request in Items 17 and 18 of a letter

dated January 14,
Committee staff.

1976, from Mr.

Sincerely,

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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
SECRET - EYES ONLY : ' January 9, 1964
a , ’
MEMORANDUM TO THE PRESIDENT
SUBJECT: Sabotage against Castro

Three small-scale sabotage operations have been approved by the
Special Group, but this recommendation is based on a routine con-
tinuation of broad policy guidance which I think you may wish
to review. The three operations involved are:
(1) a commando sabotage operation against a coastal
warehouse and pier;

(2) a sabotage attack against naval or patrol vessels in
aharbor; and :

(3) a sabotage operation against a fuel barge proceeding
in coastal waters.,,

All of these operations would have been approved three months ago,
and indeed one of them is a rescheduling of an operation aborted
because of high seas. While itis always hard to predict the noise
level in these matters, these operations seem comparable to the
small attack on a Cuban naval patrol which occurred in late December
which Castro promptly blamed on you (in fact it was an operation

approved before November 22 and not cancelled thereafter because it ‘auml

seemed to fall within the guidance you expressed. in your first review
of the Cuban problem). , \

The policy. question now is this: Lf we continue these even small
sabotage operations, Castro will certainly know it. Equally,iif we
call them off, he will know it, and so will the Russians. x Wel thus
have an opportunity to choose.

I doubt if this choice should be made on momentum alone.
I therefore recommend a Cabinet-level review of the whole principle

of covert sabotage against Cuba, I know that Rusk has never liked it
and that McNamara thinks it does very little good. McCone and the CIA
are for it, and s0 are most of the middle-level officers dealing with the
Castro problem. I myself consider the matter extremely evenly balanced,

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but before hearing full argument, my guess is that in your position
I would stop sabotage attacks on the ground that they are illegal,
ineffective, and damaging to our broader policy. I might then wish
to make a little capital from this decision with the Soviet Union.

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MEMORANDUM .
TO: °° ~+Senator Hart (Colorado) and Senator Schweiker
FROM: Jim Johnston -
Dan: Dwyer
Ed Greissing
DATE : January 27, 1976
SUBJ: Connection Between Amlash Operation and Investigation
of JFK Assassination
Background oo —_ a

‘The staff' 8 memorandum of January 5, 1976, postulated that the
Amlash operation might have had some effect on CIA's response to.
the investigation of President Kennedy's assassination. On January
9, 1976, the staff asked for access to the Amlash file at CIA; and
after a delay which was not explained, the staff was “permitted to
review the file on January 23 and 26.

ySummary of Amlash File . 7 .

Amlash initially contacted by» CIA in 1961 met occasionally with
case officers through August 1962, at which time he was given instruc-
tion in secret writing and explosives. Interest in Amlash continued
after the August meetings, but there was no further direct contact by CIA
agents until mid-1963. Why. there was a year lapse in contact with Am-
' lash cannot be determined; the Cuban missile crisis in October 1962
undoubtedly made CIA cautious in dealing with Amlash.

In any event, DIR 48198" to Rome of 19 June 1963 states that
Auwhip , a Cuban exile who assisted CIA, had sent a letter as part of
an "activation effort to reluctant dragon. "Presumably, Amlash was

“reluctant dragon" and was, “by this letter, asked to. recontact CIA.

In late August, Amlash_ traveled with a large contingent of Cuban
officials and athletes to Porto Alegre, Brazil. He cabled Amwhip
about his arrival on August 29. This cable apparently was the signal
that he was prepared to meet Amwhip in Porto Alegre.

Amwhip and two CIA case officers met with Amlash_ in Porto Alegre
between. September 5 and 8. The two case officers have testified to
the Committee about their understanding of events at this series of
meetings which they viewed essentially as a get acquainted session.
CIA-messages tell a different story. Porto Alegre 0704 to DIR 6f 7
September stated that Amlash tald Amwhip he felt’ there were only two
ways of getting rid of Castro. The first was an invasion by U.S.
forces which Amlash knew was out of the question and the second was
an “inside job." Amlash indicated he was awaiting a U.S. plan of action.
He referred to -the explosives demonstration CIA gave him a year earlier
as "too cumbersome" for his purposes.

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At the conclusion of the meetings with Amlash, Headquarters

cabled on 9 September that, based on what little feel Headquarters
had, Amlash appeared hopeless as an intelligence performer and should >
be approached as a chief conspirator allowed to recruit his own co-
horts. He should be urged to recruit a few trusted friends to assist
hin, initially in "FI and Ops reporting" and then progress to sabotage
and more serious matters on an orderly basis. (DIR 67110 to Porto
Alegre, JMWAVE and Rio.) OS

On 11 September, Porto Alegre 0708 to DIR summarized the intel--

ligence information Amlash had given on Soviet units in Cuba, saying

‘all IRBM and bombers had been removed. By this time Amlash had left
Brazil apparently heading for a vacation in Europe.

A document in the file dated 16 September and marked OFPA 72775
appears to be a transcript of a conversation obtained by covert means.
There is no indication as to where the conversation takes place, but
it F probably is in the Cuban Embassy in Paris.

- "Mary ; I don't want. to imagine ‘things but
this thing of Amlash.
‘Moreno: It is either a tremendous secret or a x,
top secret matter (unreadable) then the

word "treason" or "reason"),

Betty: I believe it is a top-secret matter."

By letters of September 14 and September 16, Amlash. stayed in
contact with Amwhip. Paris station apparently | was picking up responsi-
bility for Amlash at this * time, since Paris 0706 to DIR dated 19
September asks for some background. material on Amlash.

On 19 September, JMWAVE 4580 to DIR warns that Amlash is part of
an anti-communist group in Cuba and details the membership of his group
as well as a communist group. The message also notes that Fidel is
allegedly aware of the two groups and acts as moderator between them
in order to maintain cohesion in the Government of Cuba.

Nevertheless, Amwhip is asked to continue to work with Amlash
and is assigned to accompany him around Europe. According to Paris
0934 to DIR dated 7 October, Amlash met. with case officer O* on 5
October. Case officer 9 sat and-listened permitting Amlash to get
everything off his chest. Amlash seemed to be complaining about the
.low level espionage matters that had been discussed at the September
Meeting in Brazil, implying he had a more valuable role. Case officer
0 “provided necessary assurances his feelings not in fact true and
that his case receiving consideration highest levels. (emphasis added)‘'"
“With this problem which had undoubtedly been bothering, Amlash con-

* The files do not accurately identify these case officers. A
Gaui and , however, were the principal case officers.

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siderably, off his chest, a much more relaxed Amlash departed restating
his desire return Cuba to undertake 'the big job:*"

On October 15, London 5224 to DIR states case officer O met with
Amlash and Amwhip on 13 October. Although. the case officer had been
forewarned by Amwhip, he was not successful in discouraging Amlash's
request for a high level meeting, "Amlash convinced that if such meet
does not take place at this time it will be almost impossible come out
again and we will be in same situation as last year with no definite
decision. Also finds it difficult to believe why RFK who receives many
Cubans would refuse to see a major" such'as Amlash. The message notes
the fact remains that Amlash does “have excellent entree to highest

target level which believe we cannot afford overlook." i

This message seemingly moved Headquarters to re-evaluate Amlash's
role. DIR 75683 to London ‘on 15 October directed case officer 0 to -
return headquarters. soonest for discussions of all phases of the case.

The next meeting apparently took place on October 29. One case
officer met Amlash holding himself out as the personal representative
of RFK. He informed Amlash, according to a 13 November MFR, that
the U.S. was prepared to render all necessary assistance to any anti-
communist Cuban group which succeeded in neutralizing the present Cuban
leadership and which assumed significant control to invite the U.S.
to render assistance. He emphasized that U.S: support could come only
after a successful coup. Amlash responded by saying that without Fidel,
the military would break up into 4 or 5 groups and the regime would
disintegrate. He also said he was satisfied with the policy discussion
but desired to know what technical Support he could get.

Since Amwhip was closer to Amlash than the case officers, he was
asked about Amlash's reaction to the meeting. His reactions are
summarized in Attachment A to Amwhip's Memo of Meeting dated 14 Novem-
ber. Amwhip said Amlash was still not pleased with support from U.S.
government. While Amlash was satisfied on policy grounds, he was not
at all happy with the fact that he still was not given the technical
.assistance for the operation plan as he saw it. Amlash could not under-
stand why he was denied certain small pieces of equipment which promised
a final solution to the problem, while, on the other hand, the U.S. gave
much equipment and money to exile groups. for their ineffective excursions
against Cuban coastal targets. Amlash had accepted the fact he had to
work with the CIA, but CIA might lose him if it continued to procrastin-,

“——“"“ate. Amlash talked about going €6 the Trench térrorist organization,
the OAS, but realized that was not feasible. The memorandum ends with
what apparently. is the author's conclusion: "Tt is hoped that he does
realize that Havana must first be taken. ...-or failing that, a
truly sizeable piece of land (say, almost an entire province) which

-could be true rallying point."

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In a Memo for Record dated 19 November, one case officer i
the actions to be taken at the next meeting with Amlash. Amlash wae to.
be told the U.S. was prepared to give full support to Amlash's coup.

He would be shown President Kennedy's speech in Miami of November. 18
and told this reaffirmed support for Amlash's proposal. Headquarters
had approved giving Amlash scopes and rifles and other equipment. The
memo ended by stating that "C/SAS* requested written reports on Amlash
operation be kept to a minimum."

Pari 1564 to DIR of 20 November indicated Amlash had been called
on the night of November 20 and had agreed to postpone his return to
Cuba in order to see case officer 0 “if it something interesting." The
CIA-officer said he could not assure it was interesting but that it was
to be a meeting which Amlash had requested. (Obviously, CLA wanted to
give Amlash the "technical support" he felt he had not been promised in
the 29 October meeting.) ,

Case officer O flew from the U.S. so as to arrive in Paris on the morn-—
ing of November 22 for this meeting.

Pari 1607 to DIR received at Langley at 6:25 a.m. on 23, November
is the only message in Amlash's file reflecting the fact the meeting
had’ taken place. It indicated that Amlash was anxious to return to
Cuba and that case officer 0 was to arrive in Washington at 1810 that
day. oo

The file contains no outgoing cable to Paris on November 23 or
any other time telling Paris to break contact with Amlash.**

On 25 November, a contact report was prepared. There is reason
to question the authenticity of this document which is three pages
and reports the 22 November meeting with Amlash. The first two pages
have dark type as though prepared on a typewriter with a new ribbon.
The type on the third page is much lighter as though prepared on a
“typewriter with an old ribbon. Itimade no mention of the passing  — _
gf a poison pen to Amlash. os oe . —

On November 27, Pari 1669 to DIR reports information obtained
in October possibly by clandestinely listening devices. A source com-
plained bitterly about official (Cuban) visitors to Paris and how they
denigrate the revolution... The source said she wished she had a con-
cealed tape recorder to record these conversations. She named Amlash
as.one of these visitors. ;

* Desmond Fitzgerald

** In its 1967 report, the IG stated such a message had been sent
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On 3 December, Headquarters furnished JMWAVE some details on the
Anlash meeting including the fact that he had been promised "full u.S.
support if he is successful in a real coup against the Castro regime."
He was also promised arms which will have to be furnished through
JMWAVE's operations. a

A series of confusing cables passed between Headquarters and JMWAVE
on December 6, 7, and 8. Apparently, Headquarters first gave JMWAVE
authority to drop a cache of arms in Cuba. Then Headquarters called
off the operation. In DIR 87615 of 7 December, it is noted "major
top level Cuban/Caribbean policy review scheduled early next week which
should provide basis for decision." ; he

JMWAVE complained about the change in orders in a cable of 8
December. JMWAVE 8702 pointed out that one Headquarter's message
indicated December infiltration operations were approved by higher. author
ity but a second message indicated a scheduled operation should be de-
layed and not run in December.

Headquarters responded in DIR 87880. Headquarters procedure
was to present infiltration operation plans to "higher authority"
even though there is a reasonable chance operation may be postponed
or delayed as was case with the scheduled operation. "This procedure
will secure approval for the operation with only telephonic reconfirma-
tion needed when previously relaxed. operation finally mounted." Head-
quarters recommended delay until January after considering and equating
objectives against risk factors for Amlash and others. "Believe by
January, CIA should be in position better evaluate status of internal
assets."

By Pari 1914 of 13 December, Paris reported that Amlash left
Paris for Prague on November 27 but did not seek recontact with case
officer. DIR 90966 to JMWAVE of 23 December reported that Havana radio
on 2 December stated Amlash arrived Cuba on 1 December.

- The last document in Amlash's file for the period ending December
1963, is a long report on Amlash, but it does not contain information
relevant to the October-November activities. Nevertheless, in red pen

on the cover page appears: "Dec 1963 Not to leave this office on Nestor's
(Sanchez) orders." followed by initials that appear to be ''GM."

One Later document in the Amlash file contains more information
about the November 22, 1963 meeting. That. document, a rough draft of
a biographical information sheet on Amlash (no final draft was found)
appears to have been preparediin 1966 at the time of Amlash's arrest
for a later plot against Castro. It states: "22 Nov. 63 Mr. Fitzgerald
and Mr. Sanchez assured subject that this Agency would give him every-
thing he needed. (telescopic sight, silencer, all the money he wanted).
The situation changed when Mr. Sanchez and Mr.- Fitzgerald left the meéet-
ing to discover that President Kennedy had been assassinated. Because
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Agency could have no part in the assassination of a government leader
(including Castro) and it-would not aid subject in his attempt. This
included the following. ."We would not furnish the silencer, nor scope
nor any money for direct assassination; furthermore, we would not lift

a finger to help subject escape from Cuba should he assassinate Castro."

The same document states this message was communicated to Amlash
in November 1964 by Mr. Sanchez. .

Despite this decision, the CIA in fact continued to assist Amlash
through a cut-out until Amlash's arrest in 1966. .

Later documents. on Amlash are also relevant to, the September-
November 1963 Amlash operation. Several such documents report informa-
tion received to the effect’ that Fidel Castro had long been aware of
Amlash's plots against him.: For example, Amlash's one time Cuban
mistress was believed to be working for Cuban intelligence and her
brother was known to be with Cuban intelligence. Pari 8242 to DIR
in December 1964 warns that Amlash's objective may be known to too
many Cubans. And, one CIA informant reported in. 1966 on one known
double agent of Cuban intelligence working for CIA and said the CIA's
Cuban operations had been penetrated at a high level by Cuban intel-
ligence. He identified this latter individual only as one of the Cuban

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exiles who was knowledgeable of a number of the most important opera-
tions. Nevertheless, Amlash's file contains nothing to indicate any
detailed analysis of these possible penetrations of. the CIA's Amlash
operation, although a cryptic handwritten note on at least one re-

port rejects the suggestion that Amlash was himself reporting to Castro.

One other document bears on the testimony Amlash's case officers
gave before the Select Committee to the effect that Amlash was given |
a poison pen for self-protection. That document reports that Amlash,
and other Cuban officials in Paris in 1963, were carrying pistols for
self-protection throughout their travel in Europe.

Finally, although the staff has not reviewed all possible CIA

files to determine what other operations Castro might have been re=
ferring to in his September 7 statement, the Amlash file indicates
that some coastal landings of supplies in August were 'the only other
CIA operations conducted against Cuba in this time period.

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Scenario for B-9

This doctrine is based on the proposition that
the decision hag been reached that the U.S. cannot live
with a Castro/communist regime in Cuba which continues

its present course of subversion and aggression in Latin
America and that we. are determined to take appropriate
action to put an end to these acts.

1. In the Venezuelan arms cache case now before
the OAS hold out for a “plank check" resolution, Settle
for a 13 vote majority regardless of Mexican, Brazilian,
or Chilean support. :

2. If, despite 1. above, OAS waters down resolu<
tion, vote against the watered-down version.

3. If "blank check” regolution passed, proceed
to 5. helow.

s If watered-down resolution passed over our
protest, announce publicly that OAS no longer represents
_ an adequate hemispheric safeguard and therefore that the
United States must unilaterally declare (see 5. below).
5, Declare publicly that further aggression and
subversion by Castro in Latin America would be intelerable
to the United States and, in the event of a new act on the

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the Castro/commnist regime in Cuba as it deems appro-
priate in the circunstaices.
6.. Explain carefully through diplomatic
channels te the Soviet Union that the United States
finds the present behavior of the Castro/communist
regime in Cuba intolerable, that Cuba's activities in
Venezuela prove this to'be so and that further acts
of violence of comparable danger or potential danger
on the part of Cuba will cause the U.S. to feel no
longer bound by any inhibitions against invasion or
_ other appropriate action. Urge the Soviet Union, in
a | order to reduce tensions ‘in the Caribbean and permit
the U.S. ‘to live peacefiiliy with the Castro/communist
regime in Cuba, to assure that Cuba is restrained
from repeating its dangerous practices. Make it plain
to the Soviet Union that further behavior of this sort
' by Castro will compel the U.S. to adopt drastic measures.
Point out to the Soviet [Union the physical vulnerability
of Cuba as well as the effect a failure to resolve the
Cuban problen will have jon the traditional policy which
the U. 8. has pursued of net exerting pressures upon the
‘Soviets! European satellites, Make it plain that the U.3.
desires peace in the caribbean and expects the Soviet
Union to achieve good benavior on the part of Castro.

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of Castro which would trigger action on the part of the
‘U.S. A rule of thumb could be: | such action as would
- represent serious, realized or potential, danger to the
stability of a Latin American atate. By this criterion
- 20 Castro-trained men and four tons of arms introduced
into northeast Brazil might not constitute a trigger,
whereas the same effort by Castro in a Central Anerican
country might. The judgment can be unilateral and
subjective on the part of the U.S. |
8. Formulate a program for a post-Castro Cuba
giving full weight to the real changes which have taken
a a, place there during the past five years and full recog-
| nition to the need for channeling Castro's unfinished
‘Yevolution into constructive lines. | |
The above scenario should not be commenced unless
it is recognized that, although these actions are
. prinarily designed to deter Castro from his present course,
he may very well persevere in his policy. Under such
circumstances the U.S., having publicly embarked on the

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Advantages
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Disadvantages

Toes not attack prine
cipal problem of
Castro's subversion
in Latin America.

Castro may return to
policy of non-shipment
of arms.

Probably will not result
in apprehending arms
carriers,

Expensive.

6. In addition to actions in 3., 4. and 5. above,
engage in soft sabotage operations by supporting
“autonomous” exile groups and continue to encourage
internal acts of sabotage by means of radio, press and

leaflet campaigns.

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Advantages

Some economic advan—| a.
tages and limited

encouragement to

anti-Castro senti- a
ment. b.

Deniability by U.S.

as U.S. soil and

personnel not used, '

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Disadvantages

Results commensurate
with limited skills of
exile groups,

Though fact of U.S.
support carefully
guarded, Castro will
blame U.S. anyway.

Some noise level.

7. In addition to actions in 3., 4., 5. and 6, above,
engage in soft sabotage operations employing CIA-controlled
Cuban groups against selected targets and at spaced

Antervals,
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More professional a.

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above,
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U.3. territory.

Advantages

Improvement of exile | a.

morale and internal
resistance spirit.

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Can't Live with Castro

Continued exacerbation
of Castro without chance
of delivering a | mortal
blow,

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relax the present policy panning independent Cuban
¥ strikes against Cuba ron

Disadvantages

General ineffectiveness
against targets,

Obvious employment of

U.S. soil,
Air strikes however

ineffective begin to
arouse Soviet response.

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will be continued, )

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Plan evolved June 1963,
but. never permitted to’

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chance to overthrow
Castro, ; Lo Ce

Measurable economic impact
and strong encouragement.
to anti-Castro elements.

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Disadvantages

High risk of capture
and expesure, ~

High noise level.

Possibility of some
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2. Institute an economic denial program based upon
the establishment of a "Proclaimed List" under the Trading
with the Enemy Act together with all other feasible actions,
overt and covert, to deny to Cuba items critical to its
economy.

Advantages | Disadvantages

a, Considerable increase a. Multiplication of U.S.
in Cuba's difficulty in problems with major alliea
procuring key imports. including possible loss of
. allies’ support of U. s.
b,. U.S. cbviously “doing dollar,

something about Castro."
. b. Logs of trade.

ec. Will not assure overthrow
of Castro,

3, . Engage in sabotage operations as in B.1. above

-usging not only Cuban but other nationalities including
U.S. soldier <a fortune teams,

Advantages . Disadvantages
Improved operations and a. Technical deniability
greater economic damage. only and very high

noise level.

b. Will not assure over-
throw of Castro, .

- 4, Engage in violent large-scale non-deniable
sabotage activities, using U.S. service personnel where
necessary, such a@ mining Cuban harbors, attacking Cuban
shipping on the high seas and in the harbora using drone
surface craft, gneak air attacks on key installations, etc.

Advantages Disadvantages

‘Much more effective opera- a, No deniability.
tions and real. sconomice mo, -
damage, a b, Very high noise level,

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rapidly in fall of
Castro, will result in
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Shipping, ostensibly for the purpose of preventing
export of arma to Latin America with the aim of humi-

liating and degrading Castro,

Advantages _ Disadvantages
covantages —Saevantages

proof of U.S. intention = 3, W427 probably not catch
to stop Castro, contraband, —

a b, If vigorously pursued
against all Cuban
shipping, hay provoke
Soviet response,

hi ¢. Very expensive without
i assuring fall of Castro,

6, Cutoff of all communications (except radio) into
and out of Guba including a Clandestine cutting of the
Jamaica cable, ; ; ;

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Advantages Disadvantages a

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Will at least for a “a, Considerable outcry
period disrupt Cuba'g from Europe and Latin
diplomatie and economic America,
offensive and hinder '
Subversive efforts, b. Not fatal to Fidel,

oe 7, <A Presidential ublic declaration making Clear
that the Ws. considers the continued présence of the
Castro regime ag intolerable, barring any rapprochement

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elements within the Cuban armed forees to carry out a coup,

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and encouraging to Latin form of effective action,
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engage in certain specified proscribed actions the
U.S. will in each instance destroy a major inatallation
inside Cuba (the “Rostow Doctrine”). _

Advantages : Disadvantages
‘a. May force Castro to fo ‘a, May provoke Soviet
stop his subversive ' response either before
actions. : or after retaliatory
action taken,

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bs Whether retaliation by
the U.9. is required): b, Difficulty in pinning
or not, it will have. down clear-cut viola-
profound effect on { tions by Castro,
. anti-Castro. morale, |
: u ce, Difficulty in avolding
i civilian casualties.

b, .

9, Announce publicly and inform the Soviet Union
through high Level diplomatic channels that furtner sub—
version by Castro in Latin America is intolerable and
that if Castro persists in his present course the United
States will no longer feel bound by any inhibitions
against invasion of Cuba and will take such measures ag

f it deems appropriate. — |; See Annex A, :
Advantages ~ - Disadvantages .
a. Proper basis for a. Difficulty of clear —
future actions. —. proof.
b. Possible deterrence : b. Possible Soviet:

of Castro, oo . reactions.

ec, Best method of mini-
mizing Soviet reaction.

10, After having established the appropriate basis
for such action, impose a total blockade of Cuba.

Advantages oe Disadvantages -
The most effective method Possible Soviet reactions.

of bringing down Castro.) i

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spond better with this type of protection against nutty neighbors and over curious ;
postmené ‘These may sound like “small things to yous but .I can assure you that we uel bores
gone through thi a thousand and more time the length and breadth of the country 4 | f tine
have learned a great deal over the last three years! through some bitter experiences
Yatarally, I would like to communicate with you 4 great deal more conceming Ute

yourself $e that we can get to know you and possibly be. of some assistence to yu et
as we get mora informations, alfa

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a good working relationship for the future. Please: fell free to discuss this mates

quite thoroughly with me.

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Accepting as valid the Attorney General's statement
that there ig no point in discussing courses of action
with respect to Cuba until the fundamental decision is
made as to whether or not it is possible for the United .
States to live with Castro, the following possible
courses of action are listed under the headings "Can
Live with Castro" and "Can't Live with Castro." Neither
of these headings is absolute; the courses of action
listed under each are indicative of degrees of accepta-
bility of the Castro regime or conversely the urgency
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1. Negotiate a detente with Fidel looking towards
full recognition of his regime and unlinited trade
etween @ Qnite ates an ae @ negotiator of
the detente would endeavor to Secure from Castro. com
mitments not to engage in subversive activities in
Latin America and not to engage in polemics against
the United States. He would also endeavor to reduce
-- or eliminate, as a result of our concessions, Soviet
_ presence in Cuba and reduce the Cuban military machine
to one compatible with the requirements of a peaceful
Latin American island republic.
-- No covert activities would be undertaken and
intelligence operations would be of a nature compat~
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If the plan works, thia a.
would represent a satig-
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Cuban problem, especially
if the Soviet presence
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consequences throughout
Latin America as well as
serious domestic political
repercussions, —

Even if plan ultimately
successful there would —
be short term domestic
political losses and
short term weakening
U.S. position in Latin
Anerica,

2. Do nothing. No specific efforts will be made
to arranges a rapprochement with Pidel but we would.
remain receptive to any: advances made by him. No
covert operationa would’ be undertaken and intelligence
operations would not include black maritime operations

into Cuba,

It would be hoped that Fidel, recognizing

the good faith and good. will of the new Administration,
would make hig own advances leading towards a satis-

factory detente, -

. Advantages

4s in 1, above, Be

b,

Disadvantages

As in 1, above but less
short term domestic and
Latin American losses.

Even less chance of
Success. :

3, The present level of intelligence operations,

including U-d overflizghtsa would be continued. Black
maritime inflitrationg and exfiltrations of agents and

caches of intelligence gear would continue but no: action

operations would be conducted.

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We would be "keeping an
eye on" Fidel both in Cuba and abroad but would be making
no effort to hinder his internal development, oo

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Maximum effort would be made to increase the

countersubversion capabilities of Fidel's foreign
target countries,

Advantages: Disadvantages

We would be maintaining &. Evidence of American
@ clean hands attitude | inaction would be .
towards Castro and our ||, domestically assailable,
policy would be more | would be quickly sensed
compatible with that of! OO by Latin American coun=
our major allies. if tries and would further

ee demoralize the exile

community,

; b, We would be in effect
of helping Castro to cone
iy solidate his position
4 at home and establish
| his image abroad.

4 In addition to) intelligence collection as in
' 3., we would engage in a "persuasive" economic denial
t program employing diplomatic efforts and the coopera
tion of U.S. corporations. Covert subtle sabotage
against selected Cuban /imports Ce. g- contamination of
lubricant additives). .

Advantages { Disadvantages
A carefully targetted = We will remain at odds with
denial program with effec-_ oux allies on Cuba trade.
tive subtle sabotage is capa=- We may delay but not prevent

ble of at least disrupting Castro's progress.
the timing of Castro's |.
economic efforta. It may

_have a measurable effect
on Cuba's one domestic |
source of economic strength -
sugar.

5. In addition to actions in 3, and 4, above,
engage in surveillance of suspected vessels or aircraft ~
earrying Cuban arms shipments by means o atera

| agreements with individual countries in Latin America,

' guch surveillance to be accomplished without the use of

force in international waters and the use of force in

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Thank you for your prompt reply. Enclosed are your card and receipt, along

with our thanks! and welcome.

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Your interest in helping to form an FPCC Chapter in New Orleans is gratedully meric

received. I snail try to give you some basic information now 50 that you nay have those

a vetter nicture of what ‘this entails. , Yo

" For one thing, I-am enclosing a copy of our Constitution and By-Laws for all 80 do F:

Chapters and Student Councils. You will note ‘that there is considerable autonony , thich i

for an organization our sizo. We try and let all Chapters operate.according to the een for

Local requirencnts. Naturally, there a minimul regulations whieh must be mote “re in

é AlL Chapters can-receive litercture in bulk at a discounted rate and resell at . aes our
the reteil nrice and use the proceeds for further Chapter activitiese credit is ° fevered ¢:

. extended and paynont is not requirad with the order. tre do expect payment within a for a

reasonable period so that we may continue our end of the operations
It wuld be hard to concieve of a chapter with as few mémbers as seem to exist
in the New Orleans area. I have just gone throuzh our files and find that Lousiana
scens somewhat restricted for fair Play activities.. Hlovever, with what ia there
perhaps you could build a latger group if a few people would undertake the disciplined
responsibility: of concrete organizational work, : :
Ye certainly are not at all adverse to a very small Chapter but certainly would

expect that, there would be at least trice the amount needed to conduct a legal executive

board for the Chapter. Should this be reasonable. we could readily issue a charter te a

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taxe place and would like to do everything possible to assist in bringing it about. : :
Te feel that the south-east is a very difficult area to work vecause of our lack of
contacts. Our only ‘southeastern Chapter right now is that in Tampa, Florida which
I originally organized before coming up to.work in the National Office.

I for one am convinced of the possibility of such an enterprise but know from
exnerience that it is quite a-problem and requires sane sacrifice on the part of
thase inv »lved.

You mist realize that you will come under tremendous pressures with any attempt

to do FPCC work in that area and that you will not be able to operate in the manner

“and By-laws for all
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. which is conventional here in the north-east. Even most of our big city Chapters have
iderable autonony ,

to the : been forced to abandon the idea of operating an office in public. The national office
ding to . . :
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here In New York is the only one in the. country, today and the New York City Chapter

which must be mot.

2 ted vate and resell at ~ uses our office too so it is the only Chapter with an office. Most Chapters have dis-

Covered that it is easier to operate semi=-privately out of a hone and maintain a P.O,
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sractivitics) credit is
“ox for ali mailings and public notices. (a P.O, Box is a must for any Chapter in the

9° @ ~at payment within a
organization to guarnatee the continued contact with the national even if an indivicimal
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should move or drop out.)/ Ye do have a serious and often violent opposition and this

.proceedure helps prevent many unnecessary incidents which frighten away prosoective

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cee menbers as seem to exist

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sever, with what is there supporters, I definitely would not recawnend an office, at least not one that will

could undertake the disciplined : be easily identifyable to the lunatic fringe in your community. Certainly, I would not

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recommend that you engage in one at the very beginning but wait and see how you can \ a
1 Chapter but certainly would

operate in the comminity through several public experiences,

aded to conduct a legal exqoutive . We will ba able to gbve you sone assistence from here, but not much, It is up

Vad readily issue a charter fo |
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te the leeal Chapters, to handie their om affoirs, You shaould have at least access

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PA/Propd/ Parami litarye/

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1960 $319,534 $131,063 — $1,677,161 $318,409 - $2,446,167
1961 6,293,580 457,633 3,168,584 30,164,698 $1,627 ,824 43,712,319
1962 3,599,274 793 ,8248/ 6,444,098. - 2,975,635 4,176,000 17,988,831 ——-
1963 5,343,973 1,738,9778/ 5,786 ,797 5,038 , 830, . 3,899,830 21,808,457 —
1964 (esc.) 5,030,000 __1,767 ,500 3,520,000 9 317,5002/ 565 C00 20,290,000 as
Total ~~ 20,586 361 4 888 997 _____ 22,596 ,640 47 815,122 10,268,654 . - 106,155,774 _
SS a Ste ee OAD oe 815,122 10,268,654 106,
administrative , administrative
a/ Suppert: Includes staff salarios, purchase o€/equipment and supplies, rental of broperties and
facilities, ete,. a ; a
b/ Covert. Collection: Includes foreign intelligence collection operations and counter-intelligence
' operations involving the use of classic agent operations, ‘audio and other technical devices, use
of third-country intelligence and security services, refugee debriclings, ete.
e/ Covert Action: Includes the broad field of psychological warfare and paramilitary activities
encompassed by NSC 5412... : , a, .
af PA/Prop; Includes politieal action and propaganda operations involving the use of newspapers,
mapazines, other publications, radio, television, ete, : oe _
e/ _Taramilitary: Includes maritime operations, air operations, training, military hardware, the
formation, development, and dispatch of groups in paramilitary operations. ,
f£/ Brigade Support; Includes payments to dependents of Brigade 2506 wounded, missing, or killed in
action, medical and rehabilitation costs of released Brigade members, direct paynicnts to Brigade
members, ete. ; 7 : . ae -
gi Includes a total of $345,000 for the operation of the intcr-Apency Caribbean Admisstions-Canter at
Opa Locka, Florida: $95,000 for Fiscal year 1962 and $250,000 for fiscal year 1963,
h/

Includes $5,000,000 for support of

autonomous Cuban groups under the covert program approved ‘in
June 1963,

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REVIEW OF CURRENT PROGRAM OF Sis pape" nek
COVERT ACTION ACAINST CUBA

I. = The , Current Situation in Cuba

“During 1963 the situation tn Cuba steadily woreencd, Tha
economy continued its decline and Castro was not able te halt:

‘the dowmward curve. Hurricana Flora intensified Cuba's. economic
probileas. Disillusioment and apathy axong tha great majority
of ths population contimied to grow, and enthusiasm was ineweasingly |
restricted to a hard core. As popular susport waned, coercion and

. terror were exoloyed more and more to maintain the rezima's control.

. Castro's driva to convert Cuba into @ standard communist prototype .
eaused increasing disillusioment among his original followers.
is stature in the eyes of many Cubang and Latin dmericans suffered
with the xealicaticn, in the aftermath of the October missile existe, -
that Guba had ocen a Fawn aad Castro & cupa ef Soviet Folicy.

‘Bespite extraordinary efforts, Castra has not been abla. ta-
step acta of defiance against his regime. Guerrilla activity,

7 although scattered and encoordinated, continues. Spontaneous 9: |
. @et9 o£ sabotage are cocmon throustout the island. At ¢reat | on |
risk refugees still elude bis security forces and sca patrols “|
_ 9 esenpe from Cuba. In this atrosphera, externally ronnted | |
' waids against Cuban targets bave added te Gastro'’s sense of Oo
frustration and helped sustain hope among the many Cotans dise =. 2: : {

iilusioned with his regime. me

During 1963 Cuba's international situation seened alzost 2 age |

bad ag the domestic. Although chinks appeared in the wall, the 9°. 9°) |
U.S. policy of econemle and diplomatic Lsolation of Cuba vas . - |
holding ep fairly well. Soviet-Cuban relations clearly vere tinder -

stvaln, Castro scored no foreign polley victories to provide a =
mash needed psychological beoest. His major effert to stimulate |
Caatro-tyre armed uprisings throushouk Latin America failed te pre
disrupt the Venczuelon ‘elections of December and netted a potentially
embarrassing exposure that Cuba had shipped arms clandestinely to. 2
Venezuela, These internal and international trends and develop~- :).':.

- mente brought Cuba to a low point during 1963. og

_ Withia the past few veeks, hovaver, five developments have
given the Castro tegins an important politicalepsychological

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ae ‘The realization in the Cabsa Government that the

contizuing high sugar prices in the world market

|. have enabled Cuba to expand its comvertible

: gurteney reaerves f£rem about $20 million to |
* Almoat $100 million caring the year. i

The Sovlet-Cuban trade protocol for 1564, signed
: oo January 11, and the Khru shchevassurences of

° January 22, demonstrated @ Saviek willinoness to.
titintein its aid and trace program at a very
gubstantial level and to support Cuban surar
- prises. tha protocol calls for CubaneSovict trade

': to increase by 22 per ceat over 1963. Sovict

exports, 2bout 40 per cant of which will be on

i, exedit, will increase -by at least 20 per ConEe

‘The distinct possibility thaw the United States
policy of econenic and diplomatic isolation of Cuba.
may nok te able to stand in the face ef increasing |

' pressures fren Westera countries to expand trade

with Cuba, extending credit if necessary. ‘The
British bus deal, with payment spread aver a
five-year period, ts an icpertant political and
psychological tricmuph for Castres. its eresive
_ effects on potential ¢ Cuban suppliers ¢ aze > siraady
: leary —

The recent rioting and violence da Panena, Za which
Castro had some haad, wlll injeet new revolutionary _
fervor into Cagtroite activities. In addition,

. Panama and its aftersath will take the play away
£rom the izeident o£ the Vengnuela arms cache.

gr The revolt in Zanzibar, in which Castra aleo had a
hand, is beend to impress Latin America as well ag
other unstable areag with the lencth of Fidel's


Ra eaten eects came ep NR a meer se ne,

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3 These recent developments have provided tha upward |

. political and psychological thrust Castro's regine badly

’ peeded, Ue now bas a firmer tase for bis repeated elatas

thar Cuba hag survived the £u11 brent ef a major Uaited Statee
' @effore-to destmy the Cuban revolution, clains peely to in-

‘. press many Latin Americans as well as Cubans. In acdition,.

", Gastse now haa the ressibility of producing some tangible evidence |
:.- that his regime can restore forward momentum in the econeny.
. Comsequently, the general position of the Castre regina is
gach iaproved over that of three or four months azo. ;

\ - 4 Id - Corvent U.S. Policy and

oe The altinate U.S. objective is the replacement of the
a present | goverment in Cuba by ons fully compatible with the
oe goals of of tha United States. .

* Te attain this objective, ve are txying, by exerting
 gezioom pressure: through ali means short ‘of the use of mlli- *
; - " Samp £orce, to create a degree of disorganization, uncertainty _
“|. '.- end dizeonatent in Cuba which will (a) predispose elesents in
. «© ¢he military and other Power centers of the regine to bring
> gboat the overthrow of the Castre/Cexeumist group ead tha a
elimination of the Soviet prosence in Cuba; @) weal the. Lo

> Base for subversion in the Heonisphere; and (¢) essiat in
1. eeavincing the Soviets that they axe backing a Josiag and
, Szpensive bovae. i

a Tn order to ereate the eptiam situatioa 4gst degeribed,
‘s. @@ have been carrying out a program of iategrated, cutmally —
-,, Wedntoreiag and matually depentent courses of actions ‘These

Denia at at froomnortd mesiets ard sot t2Es OF
| Euenly to Cora: we have Gadestaken a veriety
o£ overt and covert aetivitles degimncd to OOO,
_,, Baducs free-world trade with Cuba and, cspectally, - :

to deny Cuba access to ? commodd ties critical to oor ls

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econeny. Proposala fox expanding and intensi-

_ fying these sctivities are now being presented.
The execution of these additional measures depends
basically on a decision to incur the considerable
political costa and risks that are entailed,

THe raduetion o€ Fres-uorid shinsins in the Cabs
trade: We have maintained dipionatic pressure
on fzae-world nations to reduce and eventually
elininate their ships in the Cuba trade. We have
denied U.S. financed cargoes in U.S. porta to
ships in the Cuba trade (N34i1 220, as acended). i
rok _ To the game gencral end, wa have exployed existing =:
oe legislation, and tha threat of additional legise (2. .:
- Pr = Jatien, restricting econonte and aiiitary assiste 2.
“to. 0” ae te countries with ships in the Cuba trade,
t

“3. The reduetion of free world, and the cantaimment —

a eon ef Soviet Bloc, air services toe Cuba: We have
oe ) madntained ciploaatie pressures on free-world et
“™ |. we  eeuntries baving, or wishing to establish, air ae
ot,  .  gerydece te Cubs, Be are invoking resent legis- 9): >)
we istioa cenying assistance to countries whose
- i 0°. * ghips and alrerakt carry comodities to and froa
so foo 0) Gaba. In addition, we have exerted diplomatic
‘op pRassures on frceevorld countries to deny their —
2 re facilities to Soviet Bloc and Cubsa airlinea
oe '. gerving or trying to serve Cuha, o: harass suco
Bo airlines. Le

cea hy. The Ueteetton of Eroa-uorld dlolematie relations
ee with Cts: As cpportumity has offered, we have
cE esarted pressure to persuade iree-world countries -

to break diplometic relations with Cuba or te
bape prevent the establisiment:of such relations with

'S. Efforts to emdernine the Castra imare abroad nnd
to frustrate Cuban attersts ta erkancoe thar in: a3
pot By sema of diplemacie, prapagend2 and covert.
amiss ASUS we have endeavored to doronstrate the .
ae ' wegknasa, fallorea and berrayals of the Castro ve
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Within Cosas Ags indleated above, all cur efforts
ta bring abeut Glisorganization, uncertzinty and
discontent in Cuba ara intended to weaken the

Cuban base for Castro/Comuniss subversion.

‘Cutside Cuba:

‘ltilateral: We have scught, through the CAS, cae
S obtain general Latin Aserican recognition
of the seriousness of the subversiva threat

‘and approval of reecemendations of measures 4°.

7 transfer of funds and propaganda, At the

Be:
. anée and exshange of intellizence, we have
worked to inoreva the intemal security

ee

. bilateral moasures, we have continued to:

of ‘Cuba, to feoreve | cuz’ own eoucuaications ©

to limit travel te and from Cuba, and the

present tine, ve intend to expand and intensify _

this effort threugh actions to be taken by the - ~

O4S on the basis of the Verezuelan complaint : Sa
against Cuba. Eeyond the activities in the OAgd,
we have made special efforta with the Central (|:

sericdin countries and Pénama to have then
tighten controls om the activities and movement.
ef subversives, to develcp inland 2nd inshore
surveillance capabilities, te qreuta effective .
datellicence organivations ‘and to establish a
systea o£ intelligence exchange.

Bilateral: Tarcugh training, material assist-

eapabliicies of individsal esuntrics. ets ‘.

Untlareral: In addition to miltilateral and ~-

systems end to davelop cur owa intelligence.
exsabilities against subversive activities. a

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The recuction and evental elininetion of ths Lar
- military presence in Ou ;

_ | ne Ge
oe iv. We bave madatained diplomatic pressure ou the Soviets .
. to continue troepowithdrawals and we have warned the
- Seviets that we will not tolerate the use of Sevlet .
’ . forces im Cuba te suppress popular uprising. -

BD. The eoliection of inteltipercea ©

We have saintained and ieproved our overt and covert
collection of intelligence to meet rot only U.S.
strategic requirecents but also operational require-
ments comected with our covert activities within Cubase
We have maintained perfodic high-level overtlichrs wi
suppleaented on a few oceasions by lowelevel flights. +...
Ya baye warned the Soviets and Cubans y against inter= oo!
ference with these Flight se.

A dotatied disenssion of the covert alenents og our
| ~progsas eppsars in Section Til. ve

oo -: Ag stated above, 211 these courses of action Interact end
'.- @ee interdependent. For exampic, our covert ecomenica denial
'. @perations are designed to reinfores and he reinforced by our
ee ". gwert measures of economic pressure, oth types of activities |
aks (ovo @dvested against the econemy are intended to aggravate existing .
_ si ): @geommie difficultics.and thus te incresse the level of dis- - +
a _| | -. 3° affection not only in the porular mass bat particularly date
ae oS L.. Qhg power centers of the ragine, This disaffection cnhances
he os! quae ability to establish meaninsful contact with figures in :!
‘the military and other power centers and to develcp intelli- —
" gemee sources. Thia disaffecticn is in turn intensified by -
‘the evidence of vulnerability to outside attacks provided
by the success of covert sabotage, and harassment f cctivitiess

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‘By the save token, the failure or elimination of one of these -
' gptusily supporting courses of action jeopardizes the others -
. aod thus compronizes the eatira pregrag.
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Throuzh 1963, these courses of action wera having a meszure
able positive impact. Wa are now confronted, heuover, by @ ces
~geries of develesments, described in Section i, which threaten <;
.(. @8 Qrrest of even reverse cur forward movement. The situation {
. .. dg particularly acute with respect to the maintenance of cur o
“.. @eenomic pressures. This fact makes this review of our covert |:
co operations porticularly timely and impertant. vas

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tH. Concept of the Coverk Action Prozray

ane The CIA covert action program aims at maintaining ail
feasible pressures on Cuba and at ereating and exploiting |
“:  gituations in Cuba caleulated' te stimulate dissident elements ~
*<s) within the regime, particularly in the armed forces, to carry -
| .  -@ut a coup. The objective of the coup would be to remove .
i. . the Cagtvo/Cemamists fren the regime and to eliminate the.
~ @n¢ire Soviet presence from Cuba, Recognizing that the U.S.
” 4s engeged in a trace against time with Cubs and ita Soviet
ally te obstruct tha cansalidation bE Castro‘’s regina at hens
and to prevent bia from achieving his ecbitions in Latin
 Agewioa, we set the time france for this prograa at about
.. @ightaen meaths from Jue 1963.

LR Aa originally conceived and approved in June 1963, the
‘: govern action proesram vas based on the assumption that U.S.
. . pelicy precludea a military invasion or a full blockade of
\.. Gaba which could lead to a confrontarion with the Soviet Union.
“-' Jn addition, the covert action prosraa was and is predicated |
. gm the thesis that its chance of success would denend heavily
wy oo 4 , @@ @ sustained and intensive effort in other sectors, parti«--
cyt “3° @ylarly the overt ecomonic denial and political isolation
way |. oo progress, by all elements of the United States Government.
*« Theg, the inter-sction of the. overt and covert effort against .
a | Cuba is regorded as a vital acd irreplaceable factor if there
we is to be any Rope of  BecompMiching the overall mission«’

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Ake ‘cLats integrated covert action progran consists of the
following intercependent courses of action:

Covert rollection of intellisence to meet U, Se
national security requiresents and to support
euxrrent and plamed covert operations. It should
” bea noted that clandestine maritime cperationa are
non an integral part of intelligence collection,

Pronagenda. netiana to stimulate loveris sim 1a
saborare and other forms of activa and passive
resistance against the regima.

Econenie denial actions in support of governacnt«
wide overt’ official U.S~ ecoronls isolation |
TASS e Se

zplot tation and. ft imlation of disx tfection te

Oe the ee to eacourese these elements to CaEEy out.
too) @ soup against the Castro/Commaist factions. CIA |
- . dg identifying, contacting and attempting to es-.

- tablish “channels of commenlcation with thesa indi-

Coneral eatateen and hovassment a3 an econenic weapen
asd es a stimulus to internal resistance. Asan |
momie weapon, it is deslened ts supplexent and
Buppert the overall econesic & denial progran by
damaging econoaicaily disportant installationa and to .
add to Castro's espcomie probless by fercing hin to
divert money, manpowes and resources from econente
to internal security activities, Ag a atimilus te a
resistance, sabotage and physical haressncnt operations :
provide visibla and dranatie evidence of the exisicnce | orn
and capability of organized resistance asainst the. 4
regina, To the extent that these operations are.
. geecessful, they also demonstrate toe the Cuban
“ population and elite groups the vulnerability oZ. the
regice to militant actica, It 1s recogaized that no
- gingle act of eabotage by itself can waterially affect woe
the econoay or atimslate Resistances, but we believe - tha me
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: thae the cumulative psycholocical and polirical :
... dmpact within Cuta of sustained sabotage cperations
_. ds a neceasary element in the * accomplisimeat ok our
- _fisaion, \ _
. Suonort ef extonencus mniti-Castre Cuben exile -
prong. These operations are intended to provide
_- @ deniable activity, a meana of supplementing | and
expanding our coyert capabllicy end a moans of taking i...
-' gdvantage of untapped political and resistance rescurses 3:
~. o£ the exile eorumity. The progran new includes two
_. @utenamous groups whose credibility as to autonony : ia
- strengthened by the facts thats

They are led by men whose promfnenca and status ~~ *
_ fa the Cuban exile community rakes plausible their -
access to fumds, equipment and manpower quite ine
cependent of the U.5.4

Poth are based in the Caribbess area outaide of
U.S. territory;

Both have naturel, willing allies in power in
severah Latin 4merican countries:

Beth are Cuban and exploy Cuban nationals ©
exclusively;

Every item of financtal and logistic suport bas -

teen beodled in a mamer as to provide masimm -
protection against Proat ef CIA oF U.S. partic -
etpation..

The initial ain of thase operations is to , strengthen
the will to resist by inereasing the tomupe of cee -

version and sabotage lergely maintained tmtil now . *
by CIA; the evonteal sim is te take the fight i
{roa tha coastline to the interioz of Cuka,” 7

‘The disadveatage of our autoncucus’ cperations is.
that de is mceessary to accept a lower order of

- @&ficteney and cantral than would be considered.

_ asceptabls is Glass operations:

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cP of the foresoing interlocking courges of action, ites ae
“@ end (2) are in train and no policy problema resarding thea -

_ ee expected. Iten (3) is the cubject of ancrher paver which +

s is being presented for concurrent consideration. Item (4}

is the essence of cur program and is dependent for its success

- @@ the resiles of all other overt and covert scurses of action, °

.° ZEoea (5) has been the subject of continual review since tha

inception of the program and is the primary subject of this

. paper, Consideration of Iten ($) (autoneseus operations) should — i

‘taka place with a discussion of eaboteze and harescnent (Item 3): ott

Thesa latter tro itens are discnased in more eetail in Section a

* below2.

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LW. The Sabotacen Procran in Retrospect

oT" Ge new of at least 30 acts of internat sabotage and 60.
. @emed clashes between Cuban security forces and insurgents.
since i June, Insurgency and sabotage inside Cubs are not |
pant of & coordinated program; they are acts of individual oe
ov) gow small group defiance, They ara stimulated by nany factors, Rag:
.' @ad no one facter can ba assigned entire credit. Sabotage
facidents, which includes a hish proportion of sumar cane wt
birnings, heave a tendancy to be geasenal, a fast thich farther =.
': gbseures statistical analysis. Althsugh it is troe that from ;*i:
> @ low point in sabotage incidents during the summer of 1963
... . there wos a heavy increase duxing the fall (following the me
“AN commencement of our raiding activity), we believe that clezrer ~.
_.. fight is shed cn the effects of our harassment eresram by the

o ; - atatements of witnesses of varying points of view within Cuba -
mae and by the acts of the Cuban. regime itself:

| Since 1 Aveust 1953, five sabotage raids have been.
oe attenpted. ‘ALL were successful.« There was substantial ‘
‘| damage to the target: all participants were aafely recoversd -

', God the Plausible “deniabiiity of the operations | wag noe

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anal aon nna eneeemmmeenennneninnaman | Beets, Lae ate en Nin A aah ts cicmm i Saale rare raee cine
a fo we . . te a _ . tes

oli fhe ask of proof of U.S. involvement did not prevent

. Gastro from charging the CLA with respensibility. indeed,

‘.,, @bmost every act of defiance against his regime has been
“ @eedited to the Agency. — . ES

“ter }- Gastre's exotional reactions to real or romered security
>. ¢heears point up his seute sensitivity to intemsal resistance |
-. gad gaggests that ba feels hia regime to be far from secure
_, sem external threats. The Soviet Unien, om the other hand, _
hag reasted to the sabotage raids with auch lees vigor and _
'. blastes than we anticipated. Theis only sharp reaction,
! gpide from the expected propaganda, followed a sories of air
co pwadds during d4ugust and Septeaber sponsered by Cuban ealle
:" geeuns operating from Florida and for which the Apency had
- . go responsibility. They did no real damace, bik they did
,. - demaustrate that the Cuban air defense systen eould be =
(2 2 Qeeached, and they added substantially to the psychological =
-  . domactr of our Eieat two raids. .—. _ ”

i) be Agency sabotage raids produced some very specific
-vesults. For exrple, in the political and psycuological
realm, Canadia ‘cbassador Kidd reported in late August

that the incidents that conth, Including the Santa Lucia
. gad Castiida eperationa "disturbed the feeling of eccasoli- a
o. dation and trenasilicy which the Castro regime had succeeded - -
“- S$ exearing in recent months." He reported that tae Cubana
ware uncertain and epprehensive over the possibility of 4 |
US, campaim of subversion and sabotage because of Cuba's
i. walmerebility to such a campaign cue te the "low ebb" of
“.. gathusiasa for the Castro regime among the people. Ha alas
2 gtated that the raids had "raised hepes of those opposed 7
c+ tg the regime" and that “dispirited opposition had received
oo" g 2llip ta its morale.” ee nn

fag . :
/ LF Ya a September report, Ambassador Kidd stated that — aoe
*y ghe “moat iosediate effect of such attacks is tha peychor: —
logical blow doait to the stability of the Castro genime:
“.» with consequent boost in opnecitione’ Low morale and
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agc, be said, “has “given 1 way to a wave of eptinisa that the
Baximom Leader ig no longer necessarily a permment fizture.”
. Ambassador Kidd also reported that Che Guevarre hed indicated -
’. eoncern that the raida would divert such reeded manpower ;
i" oad resources from the economic te the military sectore |

"7 Qp § September a reliable clandestine sourca in Cuba

7 reported that the reaction of tha average san on the street in -
“* Pavana to the newa of the attacks on Casiica aad Santa Lucia .
oc “yeg “aatoumding." Prier to the Cuban goverment’s amnounce=
oae-went of the raids, the average man on the street seemed

‘.*. gpathetic, depressed and in a lew state of morale. Following»
thea amiouncenont theis mood changed to one of pleasure, joys
. ow aed koge,. The observations of this source were xeinioreed
-. by the statements of Cuban refugees who erxived in the U.S.

Shortly after the Cuban anecuncement of the raids.

A former Major in the Cubah ebel Azay vho broke with
N- Gagtrs reported after his exfiltration from Cusa in January
tiv» 2964 that the 23 Decenber Siguanea raid which cestroyed a :
v:. YeG petrol boat was a great beost to morale among disaffected ©
_ Gabans.

_° & Cabana Lawyer with extendive sonmnections among ‘Cuban
: gowermment officials end in the Western ecummity in Eavana
' haa just reported that the "morale effects of the recent
 sabotags operations ase good among antieresima scgnents of
the populaci .Sech acts, to them, indicate that the outside -
” wortd is not forseatting the Cuban people, that the fight cone

. tinves and sugzests 8 possible prelude to some military action

against Castes. Opposite morale effects are noted among the

- / proeregime seguents who have tended. te remain notably wer -

so _ Shout the regice eiter successful sabotage operations.

we * A Cuban comamiestions technician euployed. by the Cuba:
; goversaent reported on i Jansary that tha “aet of sabotage |
‘ against the rorpeda boat on the Isle of Pinea was very succcsa~«

, fal in. the opinion of the pesple and,fo# sure, public opinion ©
, needed soacthing to stimulate it, What happened st La Sigusaned

had sach an effects. Although at tines failures ere euffered <
| whish depress the people, ‘Shey are  exxtous for scathing to

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2 The raids also had an {pact on the Cuban military and

* geeurity forces. Certain areas and ports were placed oa
..gpeci21 alert status. Forees are often rushed to cofensive
positions; ground, naval, and air patrols are fr cquently

'» Jaumehed or intensificds and defensive positicns in industrial
we acricultuxal couplezes arg maimed to maet tha real orl
dmagined threats. The raidg interfere not only with xoutine |
military training bet also with wor’ on cenatruction and
 egetoultural projects waich use military personnel, Baal

a Castro personally investigated the Siguanea incicent.

> In addition, Castro expanded bis esast watching natwork
from 46-observation posts at the end of June to 103 as the. :
“ @nd of October. Those posts hava radie ceammications and are ©

‘0. Wammed by 10 to 25 full-tine personnel. Ina furtner effort = 2}

’| tg seal Caba’s shores, at least 10 surface search radar stations :

ov have been established since Tunes + and wa have evidence tentae |

° ., thvely identifying 7 more. - 7

\ wi ‘ Gastro! 3 foar of rising disatdenca end tnsurpeney ia a
> g@€leeted in hig initlarion of a wide varlety of repressive 025).
." ggasuves. Many are bound to have adverse political, psychow = 0.
_§ logical or economic repercussiona inside Cuba, Ee has con- Boe
-. @geted alzest constant anti-insurgent operations involving
“s gmfts of up to 2,500 nen. Air, naval and greund forces.
'. » ‘@lementa have been put on special alert, either cn a local
-" or island-wics basis, on at least 35 occasions curing 1963
“.- gg @ result of remored ex actual maritine operations. Resi~
‘: denta dn areas of guerrilla activitk& have been forcibly - aa
., g@located, and restrictions have been placed ca transportation a
.! 4a suspect areas. In Avcust 1963 a new internal ac curity | .
_£oree, the Lucha Ceatra Tivaras, waa forced to atteaxpt ta ca!
2, Cope with off-shora raiding parties. In September new training |
“. egurses wera initiated for command cadxves of “popular defense —
waits,” Tha purpose of these anita is to organize the people .
‘"-.- te defend thenselves against enemy attack and to protest
ns industrial centera and instalistiona freq sabotage.

; aa Despite. these measures to increase Cuba's defonstve
__sapability againat raids, we have continued to improve car
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7" Qaba’s defences with good regnlarity. Raiding operations of |
5.7) this gort, however, aluays present risk and we mist assume
, that captured Cuban agents will ravesl U.S, ixvolvement as thay
“have dena in the past “giving Castro the cppertimity te make =.
‘woelfercus procaganda against U.S. aggression. In addition, .
‘although Ehrushchey has not mide Agency harassing raids the ©
' gubject of special protest (as he did in the case of the 2
exile ais raids in August and Septenber), a mijoxr step-up
a 4m the frequency or scale as, for dastance, an attack an
>) 4a ajer economic target such as Matanzas or Santiago, might ©
bring about a Soviat | protest. The chance of a 6 Physical
+". persifaticn by Castro as, for lastanca, an attack upon @
-:, U.3- installation in the Caribbean, although umliciy,
8 cannot ba entirely discounted.

"Te casera 4s to be brought down without overt military |

“ aetion the main effort will Lave to come from inside Cuba,

We believa that there is sufiicient evidence to show that

" gabotage raids, despite the risk dmvolved, are @ necessary -

. @tizalas to internal action which will need to be continued fox.

‘s+ @ eonsiderable period to permit Che tempo of intornal acts te oe _
BE reach 2 a. point where it can becoma self-sustained. hea

zof Cessation of Saborace Onerations | .

wif. Because of the visible and drematic nature of pabotage
*"" gperations, their cessation vould acon be noted by all ©
_.? guterested parties to and ebservers of U.S/Cuhen relations. =
<l.> The cessation of/| thesa raids, however, disclaizsble by the . -
i oo S$, the raids theaselvas aay be, would probably ts inter- .
"i" peated in Latin déceries and certainly inside Guba 43 @ svitck
if gf.U.S. polley from one of discreet encouragement end support |
: ’ o€ aggressive action against the Gastro retine to ons of
| “eoexistence’ and eventual accommodation with a Casero/Coxumist -
“ Gaba. bithout constant and visible signs of offensive actica -
+ @gainst Coba, 4 weakening presesa would be set in motion oc
. Whdeh eculd well! lead the countries of Latin America to draw. .
. their own conclusicns from thesa indicators and cabark on
3, @ecommedation policies of their owns Those goverrments in -
"Papin dmeries already threatened by Castroites in their own
+) *gojatries arollikely t to be ‘sabjectad | to even stronger: comestis :
oon _ Pressures ee Be
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—: 5° As this belief spreads, Western European and ather free
“° world countries eager to trace with Cuba will cone to feel
~ thar they may safely ignore and evade, to an even greater
extent than they do now, U.S. appeals for the econcate and -
‘political isolation of Cuba. 4n important additional econonie
» effect would be the relesse into normal econonle activity of -
“ ampower and fumds cow ticd up in cefense against raids, | ,

i 1 Binally, aad cost important, this development in tine ~.
os ¢ bound to have a severe demoralizing effect on the internal -
_" gegsistance ogoinst Castro. The Cuban exila comunity and ~
“1: particularly its milicane and articulate elexents would be oo
“. @eutely senaitive to & cessation of raids and can ba expected -
ty react voclferously, Judging from past experience, wa “
0s: gam expect a new surge of donsstic political agitation on
"ge part of the numerous Cuban exiles who have political
eonnections within the U.S. ote _

ogm=| os, En the event that it ts decided to temsinate CIA]
e ) @embrolled sabotage and harassment operations, it cannot be ..
8+. @gmmed that the autonomous groups, dasplte the greater -
\. geniabiliry of their actisns, could take over entirely the
. gdssion of furnishing proof of visible resistance to Castra
| @ad inspizing internal elements to take the personal risks
- @ecessary to ast a coup in retion, Autonomous groups ars
*. gs yot ongested in their capability to ccaduct exccessEul
sabotage and harassment cperationa om a sustained basis. 3
- fe 4s umlikely that im tha next months the autonoosus groups - 7
“: will develop the abiiity to match GlA-controlled operations,
‘ either in quantity or quality. ; m a oo

-X€ sabotage end harassxent operations were to be terminated:
. £ox the autonomous groups as well as for the Agency, its a
. @uppart to the autenosous groups must alse be terninated
’ goupletely as otherwise wa would not be in a position to ~
: ’ desuxe that they would discontinue raids and satetcge. .
> Sach termination would comsound the effects of ths cessation ~~:

_. 5!” 9f gue own vaids,| particularly in those areas in the Caribbean »

0 ub 3 hese the autenomua groups have been mast active. a

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4) Za tha event it is decided to abandon tha core of tha
covert program, wa will be obliged te fall back on essentially
@vert courses of action which are already operating bur which
‘gan be refined and intensified, provided the political risks
- @ad costs ara judged acceptable and we receive adequate be
i seeperation from our allies.

iw Ay: Agtion acainst free-vworld 4 econonte ties with cabs :
an cm / I .
“1S. Besause ef the recent erosion of cur efforts in this
“1, g@etor and the clear intention of tha Cubans and Soviets to
:2.- expend Cuban economics relations with the free world, a serics
- o£ recommendations to intensify this course of action has been
‘made and fs now being presented. The basic issues in the a
_. Weeommendations is our ability and willingness to incur the
* political costs and risks that heightened economic pressure —
would imvolve. Even if the recommendations are adopted
=o. eompletely, we could have no real assurence that our attempts
. .. @9 exrtail Cuban-free world economie ties would be successful.
|.) On tha other hand, if the actions and commitreents included
.. dm the recommendations are not adopted, it 48 a near certainty |.
. that; under present circumstances, our economic pressuree will -
-. . be reduced to ineficctivenesa. In any cage, it cust ba Clearly
_. |. geeognized that no amount of economle pressure can by itselé |
; _.. brdag coun the Castro goverment, at least aa long as the
' . % Soviets era prepared to subsidize the Cuban economy; The
"1. qpteLinent and disruption of Cuban economics ties with the
< £xeae@ world can only contribute, and then only over time, to :
“the creation of the optimm situation we ara trying to develop,
* Zhe effectiveness of this contribution would be at lcast
: y. gharplhy dapaired by tha reloxation of the pressure created
i - by ecvert operations. Reyend these considerations, va can
i; sever have asourance that a forelgn governcent ecoperating
7. 9a tha economic program will not pall out and virtually
“i gellapae the prograa, Entire or even isportant reliance. __
gm econenic pressure as a substitute for the covert progra@n ~
i. qagaid be to deliver the fate of cur policy inte the uncertain “
bands of governments which do not share our convictions and .
~ sense of Beloreey wita respect we Cubs." oo.

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ao Ass a secult of the Venezuelan charsea azatnat Cube arising obhs
* ¢rom the axzs cache discovery, we hava been considering a series | we
+. ef measures which we would seek in the OAS. It shculd be noted “Hh
that the atcosphere for 015 adoption of strong measures bas
Aaveriarated aa @ result. o£ the Panamanian crisis. =.

7 The measures which we have been studying includet ? -

. A bresk a diplomatic relations

“the principal effects of this measure, which would eo
mean ‘action by five countries, including frazil,
+". Ghile and Mexico, would de to provide rather dramatis

' . gvicenca of Castro's isolation and te deny the Cuban -
.  wogima subversive facilities offered by its remaining
'” misstons in Latin Acerica. The measure would meet
"Reavy vesiatance <zon Fs » Chile and particularly. -

co .
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‘+: Although this woald have little practical effect = -
- economically, - -4e would bave some utility oz a means
| g& moral preacure on other éxce-world ecuntzies
‘trading with Cubae >

A breats | air and. eneface commnication

Over bine this would lesd te a xeduction in the
Cuban ability to rove subversives to and from Latin
fnerica. It would be aseful as @ means of moral
pressure oa other free-vorld countries having, or ,
wishing to establish, ale services with Cuba. Gn
tha negative side it would mean the temporary loss | ::
‘o£ intelligence Facilities and would have en adverse

- effect oa Cuban exile morale by closing en existing

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The single most danasing OAs action tae Castre would be
am authorization for the usa of force in connection -
with the movement of arms and men. The chances of
getting a politically acceptable uajority for such
' @B@ wag estimated to be less than even before the
' events in Panaua and the prospects have dimindshed .
since then. Such OAS astica would almost certaialy
. dvamatize the Cuban issue donestically and inter
“. pationally. At the present tims, it appears that the .
surveillance systea which might be authorized by che
CAS would involve the use of force only in the '
x: terxbitorial watera of the comtrica for which the
.. Offending shipments ars destined. Thus the question
5. of O83 authorization for the use of force ca the .
; high: seas wha not arises

Tals would be a pro form for action, vith oly Minted
- psychological force. oo

| Peaffireation of vreviows CAS menasnres
, €ubenebased and suoportad subyer

_ This would be of value es a means of reinforcing a ~
_ - geneva effort in this sector (see ¢ below). Ie ia,
_ however, a purely éafensive EIGGOMED « a

" Im sum, this series of OAS measures would certainly be
helpful. and would constituts isportent miltilateral progress.
The actions, Bowevers are prinarily Peyenological and - oo

. defensive. a

ae Se Zncreased efforts a2; ainot. subversion
Ge _ can probably Anerease and expand cur multilateral,
: _b&lareral and unilateral efforts ts increasa the ability of
‘8 Latin America to resist subversien. Such efforts are purely -

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| givanteed, In any case, if the Cuban base were to be’

“” @trengthened by the relaxation of covert pressures or by
“oy, the weakening of economic pressures, we will be fighting
. tigginst increasing odds,

1, taajoz policy declarations on Cuba by the President and other |
‘ genlor officers of the Government, The efficacy of such

: | @aly if there were credible evidence that our words wera.
‘)> being accompanied by succeasful actions in other sectors.

_*. weaker than the prosent program, Accordingly, the prospects

'. £oe attaining our ultimate objective of replacing the Castro/ = --
', Seommmist regine, which have been by no means certain even :
the present covert program, especially 1£ accompanied by 2

a pressure, would zaisa in sharp terns the question of the nead -

Op AYE Recommendation.

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| De Increased psychological and erosazanda efforts
"Ge eon intensify cur measures ia this sector, ineluding 7

efforta la entirely dependent, however, upon tha substance
behind then. A propaganda offensive would be productive

"The vestdeal program set out above 43 substantisliy —

under the present program, would be very measurably diminished -
wncer the residual prozxrem, The elimination of the core of ‘

rejection or failure of the proposed ezpanded maans of econcale
te extaine the two basic alternatives: the use of force or

: i ‘That the covert progran ba continued in at least its ~
ytusent tora acd scope. ee

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On 183 August the POL storage tanks at casiida, Lag
Villas Province were attacked using 4.2 mortars,

' One tank car waa destroyed and one sterage tank —
. breached, causing considerable fire damage, ; :

On 19 Aceust the culphuric acid plant at Santa
Lacla, Pinar dol Rio Province was attacked, ;
There was considerable fire damags and fuel

lines were broken, We have reports that -
found its way inte the turbines 2a 4 resale bos
_ of the xaid causing additional damage. bo

On 30 September a lusbermill at Bahia ds
‘Maryavi, Orienta Province, a minor installation .
* o£ local econemic importance, was 70 pes cant

destroyed by a raiding party.

‘Oa 22 October an underwater demolition teen
~- ateaeked @ dredze in the harbor at Le Irabela;,. .
Las Villas Province. The vessel was suck. -

Ga 23 December an underwater demolition team
: attacked 4 Cuban naval Pe6 patrel boat in tha
. Siguenea, Isle of Pinss, naval base. The .
° patrol bear was seriously damaged and may hays -
|. gunk. Three Cuban naval personnel were killed
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tive.” Second question: What dees t he American gov-
ernment expect to gain from the blockade? Is the
economic isolation of Cuba a punishment or a political
maneuver? ;

Kennedy’s reply: “Are you suggesting that the polit-

ical effectiveness of the blockade is uncertain {sinile]?
You will see when you go to Cuba whether it is or not.
In any case, we can’t let Communist subversion win:in
-the other Latin American countries. Two dikes are
needed to contain Soviet expansion: the blockade on
the one hand, a tremendous effort toward progress on
the other. This is the problem in a nutshell. Both. battle
are equally difficult.” (Silerice.) Then, a last comment:
“The continuation of the blockade depends on the con-
tinuation of subversive activities.”

The interview was over. I did not real ly wish to sug-
gest anything, since | had never been to Cuba and,
on the other hand, I had heard from all sides tales of
the privations the Cuban people were suffering owing
to their isolated economic situation. But I could see
plainly that John Kennedy had doubts, and was is seeking
away out.

That same evening I recounted this conversation in
detail to an American colleague — an intimate friend of
President Kennedy, through 1 whom I had obtained this
interview ~and to the editor of The New Republic.
Both my confidants, who knew the President a thou-
sand times better than I, agreed that John F, Kennedy
had never before expressed hires so specifically and
with such feeling on his ‘understanding of the first
phase of the Castro revolution. They hesitated to draw
any political conclusions from his remarks. However,

they were not surprised at Kennedy's ‘invitation to.

come and see him again when I returned from Cuba.
In effect, John Kennedy displayed two basic charac-
teristics in his exercise of power: first, an overwhelming
degree of empiricism and realism. A man without a
particular doctrine, he reacted decisiv ‘ely to events, and
only to events. Nothing but the shock of collision with
a problem was sufficient to make him come to a deci-
sion, and because of this, his decisions were unpredic-
table. At that point he had a consuming need for
information, and this need had increased a great deal
since experience had taught him not to rely solely on
official channels.
. After this, I went to Havana.

Night Session

In the “Pearl of the Aapaill Sie ram-perfumed and
steéped i in triumphant sensuality,” as Cuba is described
in those American tourist folders still ‘ying. about in
the hotels of Havana, I spent three closely packed and
intensive weeks, but thinking all along that T. would
, never get to meet with Fidel Castro. T talked with farm-

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ers, writers and painters, militants and counter-revo-
lutionaries, ministers and ambassades — but Fidel re-
mained inaccessible. [had been warned: he was snowed
under with work; as a result of the hurricane, the
Cuban government } had been obliged to revise its whole
planning brogram; and then, above all, he no longer
had any desire to receive any journalists, least of all
Western newsmen. I had practically given up. hope
when, on the evening at oad thought was £9 be my
depar lane links
Baca alice apnea ave he net day
after all), Fidel came to my hotel. He had heard of my
interview with ent. We went up to my
room at to in 7 evening and did not leave until 4 in
the following morning. Here, [ shall only recount that
part of that interview which constiiutes a reply to John
F. Kennedy's remarks.

Fidel listened with devouring and passionate inter-
est: he pulled at his beard, yanked his parachutist’s
beret dawn-over his eyes, adjusted his maqui tunic, all
the while making me the target of a thousand mialiciows
sparks cast by his deep-sunk, lively eyes. At one point
I felt as though I were playing the role of that partner
with whom he had as strong a desire to confer as to do
battle; as though T myself were in a small way that
intimate enemy in the White House whom Khrushchev
described to Fidel as someone with whom “it is pos+
sible to talk.” Three times he had me repeat certain re-
marks, particularly those in which Kennedy expressed
his criticism of the Batista regime, those in which Ken-
nedy showed his impatience with the comments attrib-
uted to General. de Gaulle, and lastly those in which
Kennedy accused Fidel of having almost caused a war
fatal to all humanity.

When I stopped ta Iking, I expected an explosion.

‘Instead, I was treated to a lengthy silence and, at-the

end of that silence, to a calm, composed, often humor-
ous, always thoughtful exposition. I don’t know wheth-
er Fidel has changed, or whether these cartoons. cari-
caturing him as a ranting madman which appear in the
Western press perhaps correspond to’a Former reality.
T only know that at no time during the two complete
days I spent with him (and during which a great deal
happened), did Castro abandon his composure and
poise. Here too, I shall let Castro speak for himself,
reserving only the possibility of correcting certain judg-
ments on these two political leaders based on my own
experiences in Cuba. : _

I believe Kennedy is sincere,” Fidel declared. “I
also believe that today the expression of itis sincerity
could have’ political significance. I'll explain what |
mean. | haven't forgotten that Kennedy centered bis
electoral compalgnagainst Nixapoaethe theme. of
firmness toward Cuba. I have not forgotten the Ma-
chiavellian tactics and the equivucation, the attempts at

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ressures, the blackmail, the organiza ion
of a counter-revolution, the bloc , above ew ry
thing, all the. sane vere imposed
befgre, long. :. etext and alibi of
Communisyy. But I feel that he inherited a difficult
situation; I don’t think a President of the United States

kade an

is ever really free, and I believe Kennedy is at present.

feeling the impact of this lack of freedom. I also believe
he now understands the extent to which he has been
misled, especially, for example, on Cuban reaction at
the time of the attempted Bay of Pigs invasion. I Lalso

- tpink bois a realists he is now registering that it Tim

possible to simply wave a wand and cause us, and the

explosive situation throughout Latin America, to dis-

appear.

Why the Missiles Were Installed

“There is one point on which I want to give you new
information. right away. I have refrained from doing
this until now; but teday an attempt is being made to
frighten all mankind by propagating the idea that
Cuba, and in particular I, might provoke a nuclear war,
so I feel the world should know the true story of the
missile emplacement.

“Six months before these missiles wer
Cuba, we had receive

if information

wartling us that anew invasion of the islind was being
repareds under Sonne gape the Central Intelligence

‘Agenc yore humiliated by the —

Bay_of Pigs disaster wat by hewiectacle of eine
ridiculed in the eyes of the wold and beroied in US
goxernment circles. We also knew that the Pentagon
was vesting the CIA preparations with the mantle of

its authority, but we bad doubts as to the attitude of
theDresident. There were those among our informants
wh ttl to alert the President

and give bi aus onicer rto arre ce
piabatations. Then one day Khrechchev" s son-in-law,
Adzhubei, came to pay us a visit before going on to
Washington at the invitation of Kennedy's associates.
Immediately upon arriving in Washington, Adzhubei
had been received by the American Chief Excculive,
and their talk centered particularly on Cuba’ A week

after this interview, we received in Havana a copy of -

Adzhubei’s report to Khrushchev. It was this report
which triggered the whole situation.

“What did Kennedy say to Adzhubei? Now listen to

this carefully, for it is very important: he had

— the new situation in Cubg

was intolerable for the Unit-

-~wed States, that the American government /iutd decided
it would wottolerate it any Tonger,; ye had said that

peaceful coexistence was seriously compromised by the
fact that ‘Soviet influences’ in Cuba altered the balance
of strength, was destroying the equilibrium agreed

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said that -

upon and [at this point Castra emphasized his state-
ment by pronouncing each systayle separately] Ken-
nedy reminded the Russians that the United States
had not intervened in Hungary, which was obviously
a way of demanding Russian non-intervention in the

event of a possible invasion. To be sure, the actual word
“invasion. was not mentioned aad SdZbubelwatathe

time, lacking any back t
draw the same conslusions as we did. But when we

communicated to Khrushchev all our previous informa-
tion, the Russians too began to interpret the Kennedy-
Adzhubei conversation as we saw it and they went to

the source of our information. By the end of a month,

the Russian and Cuban governments bad reached athe’

definite conviction that an invasion mj lace
from one.m his is the truth.

“What was to be done? How could we prevent the
invasion? We found that Khrushchev was concerned
about the same things that were worrying us. He asked
us what we wanted. We replied: do wligtever is needed
to convince the United Stake eabdbimands 110
wit. And how
to realize this objective? All our thinking and discus-
sions revolved around this point. We thought of a
proclamation, an alliance, conventional military aid.
The Russians explained to us that their concern was
twofold: first, they wanted to save the Cuban revolu- -
tion (in ‘other words, their socialist honor inthe eyes
of the world), and at the same time they wished to
avoid a world conflict. They reasoned that if conven-
tional military aid was the extent of their assistance,
the United States might not hesitate to instigate awn
invasion, in which case Russia would retaliate and this *
would inevitably touch off a world war.”

At this point I interrupted to ask how Cubs could
have been absolutely certain of Soviet intervention.
After all, | said, Stalin certainly “let down” Markos,
the Chief of the Greek Communist Resistance, because
such help would have conflicted with prevailing zones

is He same as 4

* of influence.

“I knew,” Castro replied, “but the two situations
cannot b® compared.” Then he continued:

“Russia was much too deeply committed to us. More-
over, since then we have had every proof of the im-
mense. solidarity of the Soviet people and its leaders.
You can see for yourself how clearly this solidarity is
manifest here. Then there is. something else, specifi-
cally apropos of Stalin. When I was in the USSR and
others, outside Russia, were reproaching Khrushchev
for taking a more conciliatory stand#han Stalin toward
the capitalists, Khrushchev confided to me several ex-
amples, which I will not repeat to you, illustrating the
prudence, even the abdication of Stalin. He told me-
and I believe him= that Stalin would never have em-
placed missiles in Cuba.

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“Tt is true that it was said then by other factions
that. the real reason for installing the missiles was
because certain.internal problems were driving the Rus-
sians to use us to provoke the United States. | am here
to tell you that the Russians didn’t want and do not
today want war. One only need visit them on their
home territory, watch them at wark, share their eco-
nomic concerns, admire their intense efforts to raise the
workers’ standard of living, to understand right away
that they are far, very far, From any idea of prevacation
or domination. However, Soviet Russia was confronted
by two alternatives: an absolutely inevitable war (be-
cause of their commitments and their position in. the
socialist world), if the Cuban revolution was attacked:
or the risk of a war if the United States, refusing to
retreat before the missiles, would not give up the at-
tempt to destroy Cuba. They chose socialist solidarity
and the risk of war. . ; So

“Under these circumstances, how could we Cubans
have refused to share the risks taken to save us? It
was, in the final analysis, a question of honor, don’t

you agree? Don’t you believe that honor plavs a role

in politics? You think we are romantics, don’t yeu?
Perhaps we are. And why not? In any event, we are
militants. In a word, then, we agreed to the emplace-
ment of the missiles. And I might add here that for us
Cubans it didn’t really make so much difference
whether we died by conventional! bombing or a hydro-
gen bomb. Nevertheless, we werd gambling with
the peace of the world. The United States was the one
ta jeopardize the peace of mankind by using the threat
of war to stifle revolutions. .

“And so in June, 1962, my brother Raoul and Che
Guevara went to Moscow to discuss ways and means
of installing the missiles. The convoy arrived by sea in

three weeks. The United States was able to find out

that weapons were being shipped in, of course; but it
took them two months to discover that these weapons
were guided missiles. Two months... in other words,
longer than we had calculated. Because, of course, we
were seeking intimidation, not aggression,”

“Alliance for Progress

The conversation now turned to the Alliance for rog-
ress. “In a way," Castro said, “it was a good idea, it
marked progress of a sort. Even if it can be said that it
was overdue, timid, conceived on the spur of the
moment, under constraint... despite all that Pam will-

”. ing to“@ereethat the idea in-reeh *nstituted an effort

to adapt to the extraordinarily rapid course of events in
Latin-America. Such as, for example, what we read in
“he papers this morning - did you see the news? That

Argentina is nationalizing the oil industry? The Argen-

tine government! Do you realize what that means? This

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will cause more commotion on the wep York stock
exchange than Castroism! The Catholic and military,
conservatives of Argentina, the Factions’ most closely
linked with’ American interests! There is talk of na-
tianaligatian of industries there, of agrarian reform
there... well and good! If the Alliance for Progress
provokes these developments, then it’s not doing so.
badly; all these things are consonant with the aspira-
tions of the people. | can look back to the days of
Eisenhower, or rather of Nixon, and recall the furore
which broke out when the United States and Cuba to-
gether decreed an agrarian reform which was to apply,
mark this well, only to landowners of over 200,000
hectares! Yes, 200,000! Yet the reaction of the trusts
was terrible at that time. Nowadays, in the other Latin
American countries, because the Communist banner is
used as a bogeyman, the reaction of the American

. trusts is shrewder. They are going to choose strawmen, -

so as to rule indirectly, But there will be difficulties.
“This is: why Kennedy's. good ideas aren't going, to
Vield any results. Tt is very easy to understand and at

“this point he surely is aware of this because, as I told

you, he is a realist. For years and vears American policy
~ not the government, but the trusts and the Pentagon
— has supported the Latin American oligarchies. All the
prestige, the dollars, and the power was held by a class
which Kennedy himself has described in speaking of
Batista, Suddenly a President arrives on the scene who
tries to support the interests of another class (which

‘has no access to any of the levers of power) ta give the

various Latin American countries the impression that
the United Sates no longer stands behind the dictators,
and so there is no more need.to start Castro-type revo-
lutions. What happens then? The trusts see that their
interests are being a little compromised (just barely,
but still compromised); the Pentagon thinks the strate-
gic bases are in danger; the powerful oligarchies in all
the Latin American countries alert their American
friends; they sabotage the new policv; and in short,
Kennedy has everyone against him. The few liberal or
allegedly liberal presidents who were chosen as instru-

ments of the new policy are swept aut of office, like

Bosch in Santo Domingo, or else they are transformed.
Betancourt, for example, was not a Batista; now he
has become one.

“In view of all these things, how can the American
government seriously believe that Cuban subversion is
at the root of explosions taking place all over the |
South American continent? In Venezuela, fos,example,
are you familiar with the situation there? DoYou think
the Venezuelans need us to understand what's going
on in their country? Do you think we don’t have
enough problems of our own? Right now I ask only
one thing: Leave us in peace to better our country’s .
economic situation, to put our planning into effect, to

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This doesn’t mean we
do not feel solidarity toward nations that are struggling
and suffering, like the Venezuelan people. But it is up
to those nations to decide what they want, and if they
choose other regimes than ours, this i isn’t our business.”

educate our youny comparicres,

“We Have Always Lived with Danger”

T asked Fidel where is this all going to end? How will
the situation develop? Even if the United States uses
against you what you call the alibi of Communism, it
still remains free thet you have chosen Commiuaisiy,
that your economy and your security depend on the
Soviet Union, and that even if you have no ulterior mo-
tives in this association, still the United States considers
that you are part of an international strategy, that you
constitute a Soviet base in a world where peace depends
on mutual respect for a tacit division of zones of in-
fluence.

“T don’t want to discuss our ties with the Soviet
Union,” Fidel Castro cut me short. “I find this indecent.
We have none but feelings of Fraternity and profound,
total gratitude toward the USSR. The Russians are
making extraordinary efforts on our behalf, efforts
which sometimes cost theni dear. But we have our own
policies which are perhaps not always the same (we
have proved this!) as those of the USSR. I refuse to
dwell on this point, because asking me to say that Tam
not a pawn on the Soviet chessttemglis something like
asking a woman to shout atoud in the public square
that she is not a prostitute.

“TE the United States, sees the problem as you have
posed it, then you are right, there is no way out. But
who is the loser in the last analysis? They have tried
everything against us, everything, absolutely every-
thing, and we are still alive and getting better day by
day; we are still standing upright, and we plan. to cele-
brate with greater festivities than usual, on January 1,
1964, the fifth anniver sary of the Cuban Revolution!
The United States’ policy of isolating us economically
is less effective with each passing day; we are increas-
ing our trade with the rest of the world. Even with
Spain! We have just sold a shipment of 300,000 tons
of sugar to the Spaniards. Far from’ discouraging us,
the blockade is maintaining the revolutionary atinas-
phere we need to stiffen the country’s backbone. Are we
in danger? We have always lived with danger, To say
nothing of the fact that you have no idea how many
friends one discovers in the world when one is perse-
cuted wd by. the United Staeapam' ste truly, for all these
reasons, we are not suppli iants, we ask nothing. Vi
tell you something else: since the rupture and the
blockade, we have forgotten the United States. We feel
neither hatred nor resentment any more, we simply
don’t think about the US. When I think of the problems

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which dip slomatic relations with the United States
would pose! The Swiss Ambassador presenting the
Us at present. I prefer to do business with him than

wvith 200 members of an Embassy among whom surely

some spies would be spotted.

“T have just talked to you as a Cuban revolutionary.
But I should also speak to you as a peace lover, and
from this viewpoint [ believe the United States is too
important a country not to have an influence on world
peace. IT cannot help hoping, therefore, that a leader
will come to the fore in North America (why not Ken-
nedy, there are things in his favor!), who will be willing
to brave unpopularity, fight the trusts, tell the truth
and, most important, let the various nations act-as
they see fit. I ask nothing: neither dollars, nor assist-
ance, nor diplomats, nor bankers, nor military men --
nothing but peace, and ta be accepted as we are! We
are socialists, the United States is a capitalist nation,
the Latin. American countries will choose what they
want. All the same, at a time when the United States
is selling wheat to the Russians, Cahada is trading with
China, de Gaulle respects Ben Bella, why should it be”
impossible to make the Americans understand that_.
socialism leads, not to hostility toward them, but to co-
existence? Why am | not Tito or Sekou Touré? Because
the Russians have never done us any injury such as
the Yugoslavians and the Guineans have complained
of in the past, and because the Americans have never
given us any of the benefits for which these two nations
congratulate themselves today.

“As to this matter of fearing Soviet intentions in
Latin America through Cuba’s. subversive activitie.,
this is just attributing to: others one’s own desire to

- dominate. You said yourself just a little while ago tha:

the Russians have had enough of their Cuban involve-
ment. Economically this is obvious. This is why, speak-
ing from a military viewpoint, it is better not to force
nations to turn to the Russians for help. Really, it
seems to me that 4 man like Kennedy is capable of
secing that it is not in the United States’ interest to
pursue a policy, which can lead only to a stalemate. So
far as we are concerned, everything can be restored to
normalcy on the basis of mutual respect of sover-
cipnty.”

In conclusion, Fidel Castro said to me: “Since you
are going to see Kennedy again, be an emissary of ©
peace, despite everything. 1 want to make myself clear:
[ don’t want anything, | don’t expect anything, and
as a revolutionary the present situation does not dis-
please me. But.as a man and as a statesmen, it is my
duty to indicate what the bases for understanding
could be.” :

All this was said two days before President Ken-
nedy’ s death,

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MEMO te bodnstira,, ad to COS from LEGAT; Subjects OSWALD - tt is to be noted thd’ ths shite Ge
House was. in receipt! of a paper entitled "Possible Psychological Motivations in the Assussina- — Kg.

tion of Pres. Kennedy" written by Jose|I. LASAGA of Miami, Fle. This “Speeutay iva Pagtr attempted
o establish that the @ motivation of-OSWALD in ths assay eFination of Pras Kiwas Pidei <« SASERO

for s CASTRO agent and that OSWALD was motivated during his trip to Mex xL betwee: Se
-2.0et 63. .The paper alleged that OSWALD held ean extended tnterview with the
“Mexi whom he met in a restaurent on the outskirts of Mexi from which resta
later left iin the Amb's car for a ‘talkiwithout being overheard,/ Sou: ¥
wags alleged to be Salvador DIAZ Verson. This individusl wes interviewed ot
that while in Mexi 29-29 Nov 63 attending the Congress of the Intemetional
Professional Newspaper Organizations, he was at.the offices of the newopar
-the night of 25:Nov 6%. ‘There he learned through the Mexi press that the.
one Silvio ‘DURAN; thet DURAN allegedly'had OSWALD as 9 guest in her, house onda
to Mexis.and that DURAN placed OSWALD in contact with officials of che Cub SE ie Ee
DIAZ Versori went. on to claim that he wes @ told by Dr. BORRELL Noverrss, er aed
” news pape rman. employed py Excelsior, that OSWALD ond DURAN on the day followers CSWAT rdyak
. din Mexd went toa restaurant called the Cabello Blanco or possibly ths Cabalio Baye where they
-mat ani! officialiof the Cub. Emb, DIAZ Verson claimed that he kmows novhing obeut OSJaLD and
the Cub. official deaying | the . restaurant together in a car, / It was uscerval Shai Dro!
‘Eduardo PORRELL: ‘Naverro, ° ‘a former Cuban Cabinet Minister who on ocernsicn wri 2
’ articles for the Mexi City Excelsior, currently _ rasides at 1503 Howero £t., Avart 4 Fas
enna es Navarro[was. interviewed - Fon. LL: Jan.at.whigh time. he furnished the follow ‘ing 3 rubOrc .
. Salvador. DIAZ Verson! was ji Mex as claimed; and discussed OSWALD vith _PORELL ond other Cuban
exiles! DIAZ Verson! also visited BORRELL in BORHELL's home, / BORRSLL did not + ell the story
|. credited to him! by DIAZ Verson concerning the visit to.a Mexi City vestaurauy ALD ond

, 8lviai DURAN. BORRELL had never moe story or any similar stow befor, =

of no meeting between OSWALD and Cub Enb officials other then the meetings vi ion oesurrsd . ee

Tec 2HeT OESESPSEPLIOG cos60c AH

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i .o ‘thej time OSWALD visited the Cub Conlin Mexi. f BORRELL knew nothing concerning any visit -- - praees
“by OSWALD et ‘the hone of DURAN. / + 4a to be noted that DURAN was aaes tions aby Mevt as tthorities —_ rer

. . . t ! ; .

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— on. 33 Nov 63. avs ‘that. time “she confirmed that OSWALD visited: tie ‘Cub Em “tn ‘Moxt dur ing the) i .
_ ‘ime he wad in Mexi! from 27 Sept to 2 Oot, | She: Talleged that tha purpose of his visits to the A_

“ry. Cuban Enb was to obtain & Cuban visa. [She stated she had given him a telephone numbsr to use |
: in calling: her concerning the visa, but denied that he had over visited in her hom. / On; -
ge ‘27 Jan 64 A source.!., advised thet he; had been| unable to locate 4 Cabillo Blano restaurant i
dn Mexi, but etated jthere is a Caballo; Bayo restaurant located on outskirts, of Mexi,) 3
i. “Source went to restaurant, shoved | ‘photos of former Cub Con Euse bio AZCUE Lopez; who was in «!
~ charge of Cub Con'at the: time of OSWALD'’s visit!there, of Cub: Amb HERNANDEZ Armas, of Silvia |. oS
“QURAN ‘and of OSWALD {to employees of restaurant and conducted extensive ‘interviews of these | - as
saig@mpLoyses lS iniwas ‘Unable to find anyone among the employees, who could | yFecoll any of the bt
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REFERENCES TO CUBA ASSASSINATIONS,
WARREN COMMISSION MATTERS _

BOX 2: MEMORANDA FOR RECORD

File: November 29, 1961 - April 5, 1962

December 5, 1961, Meeting with Attorney General Kennedy -
“Lansdale operation” mentioned in paragraph 12.

December 27, 1961, Meeting with Attorney General Kennedy ~
"Lansdale operation" mentioned in paragraph 5.

January 22, 1962, “Meeting with Attorney General Kennedy ~
Reference to a "Lansdale paper" to be discussed by the 5412
Committee plus Robert Kennedy.

April 5, 1962, Memos on Special group Mongoose Project -
General discussion of possible military. intervention in Cuba.

File: April 7, 1962 - August 21, 1962

(40) - April 10, 1962, phone call to Bundy explaining that
Attorney General upset that Perrez was apparently telling
people in Miami about his five meetings with the Attorney
General. Cardona was to meet JFK that day.

(61) ~ July 3, 1962, meeting with Attorney General ~-
included a short discussion of "Reuther plan" for labor
operations apparently: ‘in Italy.

(86) - August 21, 1962, “meeting with Rush, McNamara, Alexis
Johnson, the Attorney General, Director of Central Intelligence,
General Taylor, Lemnitzer, and M. Bundy ~ a general discussion
of Cuban situation and possible courses of action if MRBM's

are discovered in Cuba:

"McNamara expressed strong feélings’
that we should take every possible aggressive
action in the fields of intelligence, sabo-
tage and guerrilla warfare, utilizing Cubans

‘and do such other things as might be indi-

cated to divide the Castro regime."
(emphasis added)

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(97) - October 5, 1962, Meeting between DCI and Bundy:
McCone wanted to be more activist toward Cuba - Bundy was
more conservative. (No specifics)

(118) - December 17, 1962, DCI memo re Earman Report on
Cuba [MISSING]

[Apparently not a meeting or phone.call]

(Comments on Report on Missile Crisis, according to Elder)

(119) ~ December 18, 1962, DCI memo re Earman Report on Cuba
[MISSING]

(120) - December 19, 1962, DCI memo re Farman Report on Cuba
[MISSING]

File: June 1, 1963 - February 9, 1963

(12) - January 21, 1963, phone call between DCI and
Eisenhower (transcript) about Cuba. - (No mention of
assassination.) . .

File: February 9, 1963 - April 9, 1963

(36) - March 5, 1963, Memo of DCI discussion with Attorney
General [No one to see without DCI permission] [DESTROYED]
[According to Elder, dealt with wiretap of newsmen. ]

(38) - March 7, 1963, °Memo of conversation with Attorney
General at Hickory Hill [No one to see without DCI permission].
[DESTROYED]

(52) - March 30, 1963, DCI discussion with Eisenhower and
Lundahl on “current status of Cuba" [DESTROYED]

File: April 15, 1963 - June 4, 1963

(68) - Memo of DCI on Cuban Policy: “Random thoughts
developed by DCI on various aspects of the Cuban problem
and the discussions at Standing Group prepared for. use by
representatives of DCI at meetings on this subject during
his absence from the country,” April 25, 1963, contains
the following:

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Castro's political position will im-
prove within the next year (barring
assassination) .

The context clearly indicates, however, that DCI is not
proposing this. ;
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(77) - DCI memo of May 18, 1963, on Haiti: contains this
statement: "Apparently Duvalier, in the absence of assassi-
nation, will survive the jefforts of internal opposition
elements..." Context indicates DCI was not proposing or
considering assassination.
(61) =~ April 15, 1963, Memo of meeting between Attorney
General and Director of Central Intelligence about "Helms/
Angleton operation, Cuban sabotage proposals" _ [DESTROYED]

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“"Helms/Angleton Project... " [DESTROYED]

File: June 5, 1963, - guly 20, 1963
Nothing Relevant ;

File: July 23, 1963 ~ November 26, 1963

(133) - August 20, 1963, lhuncheon with DCI,. Colonel Grogan, ~
Tom Ross of Chicago | Sun Times [MISSING]

(138) - September 5, 1963, DCI and Bundy, "After Special Group”
[MISSING] ot

(138) - September 7, 1963, DCI and Papich [MISSING]

(138) - September 12, 1963, DCI and J. Edgar Hoover at
Justice Department [MISSING] ;

(158.5) - October 24, 1963, DCI/Robert F. Kennedy lunch at
Kennedy's house [MISSING]

(168) - November 26, 1963;, DCI and Bundy on message about
Kennedy assassination _ IMISSING]

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(168) - November 15, 1963, DCI and Rusk: Sukarno had said
that British and CIA were plotting to kill him. Rusk asked
if CIA had any information about a plot by British. DCI
said no.

File: November 27, 1963 - December 31, 1963

[Entire contents of file missing.]-

From titles, nothing here appears relevant.

File: January 1, 1964 ~- February 11, 1964

Nothing relevant.

File: February 12, 1964 - April 5, 1964

[Entire contents of file missing.]

(25.5) - February 19, 1964, DCI and Fitzgerald: "White House
Meeting - Situation Room ~ Re: Cuba" [DESTROYED]

(36.1) - March 14, 1964, Meeting of DCI, Bundy, Helms [DESTROYED]

(46) - April 5, 1964, Meeting of DCI and Rusk: "EYES ONLY -
NO DISTRIBUTION ~- FSO Richard Fredericks; Carl Rowan; ~
- Republican Platform of 1960." [DESTROYED]

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File: April 6, 1964 - July 8, 1964.

(49) - April 16, 1964, Meeting with: . DCI, Justice Warren,
Senator Cooper, Stern, Rankin, Willens of subject: "Met in
DCI's Office" [MISSING] |
(58) - May 14, 1964, DCI, Rankin, Helms - Subject: “Warren
Commission (accompanied by Mr. Helms). Helms saw commission ,
transcript and returned it to.the commission." "No MR
expected" [MISSING] .
(69) - June 12, 1964, DCI, Mr. ‘and Mrs. Henry Luce: "Memos
used at lunch re: Cuban article in TIME" - NO DISTRIBUTION -
nothing on assassinations.
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(No file under these dates.)

File: August 12, 1964 - September 10, 1964

Nothing relevant.

File: September 11, 1964 ~ October 31, 1964

(138) =~ October 15, 1964, DCI, Sam Papich ~ "NO DISTRIBUTION ~
discussion re Walter Jenkins' matter." [DESTROYED]

(143) - October 22, 1964, DCI, Robert Kennedy: "In
Presidential Suite, NYC - Personal discussion EYES ONLY
JAM ~ NO DISTRIBUTION" [DESTROYED]

File: November 1, 1964 ~ December 31, 1964

Nothing relevant.

BOX 8: .MEMORANDA OF MEETINGS WITH THE PRESIDENT

File: October 25, 1961 - July 31, 1962

(B) - December 14,.1961, at a meeting with the President

and General Taylor, DCI advised Kennedy that there were
possible dangers that he might be the subject of an assassi~
nation attempt on his planned trip to Colombia and Venezuela,
which the CIA could not guarantee the safety of.

(6) - February 11, 1962, :at a meeting with the President,
Bundy, and Taylor, DCI discussed efforts to convince one
‘Charles Murphy not to write a certain article for Life
magazine on some subject related.to Cuba. Apparently, the
article was revised to DCI's satisfaction and then published,

(12) --May 7, 1962, at a‘meeting with the President and
Taylor, ‘DCI discussed Operation Mongoose in some detail.
No mention of assassinations.

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through Dec. 18, 1962] .

(28) - July 20, 1962: At a meeting with. the President,
Taylor, and Alexis Johnson, Mongoose was discussed. No
mention of assassination.

(52) - October 26, 1962: | At a meeting of NSC Executive
Committee, DCI discussed Mongoose. . No mention of assassination.

(55) - October 30, 1962: "Memo to DDCI outlining Presidential
Directive to CIA; no provocative actions by refugee groups;
estop Alpha 66; stop Mongoose ops; no contact with Press."
[MISSING] ;

(70) - November 29, 1962: Ata meeting of the NSC
Executive Committee (President absent), DCI discussed
Mongoose. No mention of assassination.

File: January 1, 1963 - March 31,. 1963

(7) - January 23, 1963 (4:30 p.m.): Meeting with President,
DCI, and Helms." No memo present. Listing does not indicate
whether or not memo was prepared, even though it generally
indicates when memos were not prepared. Secretary's note

of 1/27/72 (MB) notes: "No MR in file"

(8) - January 23, 1963 (4:45 p.m.): Meeting between DCI

and President - missing memo; same situation as #(7) above.

(28) - March 25, 1963: In meeting with President, DCI

"reviewed the requirements for telephonic and audio surveillance
intelligence at selected embassies and foreign residences within
the United States..." President suggested that the DCI talk”
with J. Edgar Hoover on this matter.

File: April 1, 1963 - July 1, 1963 .

(33) - April 16, 1963: In meeting with the President, DCI

sae assee two methods of dealing with Castro: (1) "Working
' Castro to turn him from Soviets; (2).Pressuring USSR to

remove from Cuba and "then to bring about the downfall of

Castro by means which could be:developed after the removal

of Soviet troops..." No mention of assassination.

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(43) - May 27, 1963: In meeting of President, DCI, and
others, policy towards covert operations against Haiti were
discussed. No mention of assassination.

(50) - June 19, 1963: In meeting with the President and
others, DCI discussed plans for covert operations against
Cuba, including “external sabotage." Vague memo of record
by Desmond FitzGerald, but no mention of -assassination.

File: July 1, 1963 - November 12, 1963 | : a

(74) - November 12, 1963: Ata meeting of the President, DCI,
and others, "McCone emphasized that to a very considerable
extent these [Cuban exile groups] are uncontrollable and-
forecast that once Artime was in business, we might expect

some events to take place which were not exactly to our liking.”
(This was in a general discussion of covert actions against
Cuba; no mention of assassination.) _

File: November 23, 1963 - December 31, 1963

(1) November 23, 1963 (memo of November 25): DCI told

Lyndon B. Johnson of information received from Mexico City.

DCI later called: Rusk to tell him of information from Mexico City:
",..the holding of a Mexican employee of the Cuban embassy by
Mexican officials for interrogation concerning Lee Oswald."

(4) November 25 and 26, 1963 (memo of November 26): In
meetings with the President and the DCI, the President expressed
"contempt" at Justice Department suggestion of independent inves-
tigation of John F. Kennedy's assassination. He instructed the
DCI to insure CIA cooperation with the FBI report.

(4) November 29, 1963: In a meeting with DCI, Lyndon B.

Johnson, McNamara, and Bundy, the DCI apparently gave latest
developments in Mexico City investigation of Oswald. A list

of "late developments" is in file, to be used. for this Purpose,

(Obtain copy.)
File: January 1, 1964 -: April 2, 1964

Nothing relevant.

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(19) - April 7, 1964: Meeting of DCI, President, and others

re Cuba Covert Action. |

Here DCI advocates strong program to obtain overall objective

set forth in a paper of June 8, 1963: "The ultimate objective

of this policy would be to encourage dissident elements in the
military and other power|/centers of the regime to bring about the
eventual liquidation of the Castro/communist entourage and the
elimination of the Soviet presence from Cuba." (emphasis added)

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File: May 21, 1964 - October 5, 1964

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September 30, 1964: Meeting of “DCI; President; et al" to
discuss “Warren Commission | ‘Report - (to set up Presidential
Committee)" - No memo indicated to have been prepared.

File: October 6, 1964 - |Decenber 28, 1964
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File: 303 - January - pdcember, 1963

Several sets of minutes. have the following notations after
paragraphs dealing with Cuban operations: "See special

minutes for additional items." ~ No such "special minutes"
appear to be contained in this file.* However, this same nota-~
tion appeared in connection with other subjects.

This file contains several discussions’ of the Haitian problem.
Although it's clear the participants would like to be rid of
‘Duvalier, there is no mention of assassination. .

Nothing else relevant.

File: January - December, 1964
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Contains discussion of Haitian problem, and CIA agreed to
"explore methods of dealing with the Duvalier problem in
the immediate future." (May 12, 1964)

*Other than certain memoranda prepared by McCone.

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The minutes of the June 18, 1964, meeting (dated June 22, 1964)
contained the following: | [OBTAIN COPYJ (signed by Peter Jessup)
"A paper was discussed on alleged plans which involve

the underworld to assassinate certain Cuban leaders. _

Mr. McCone was somewhat skeptical of the reported plots and
Stated that he would like to go into the matter further.

Others, including Mr. Bundy, felt that the United States was
being put on notice and should do everything in its power to
ascertain promptly the veracity of the reports and then under~
take prevention. It was decided that Mr. Bundy would call the
matter to the Attorney Ge

neral's attention as a matter of law
enforcement." i

Mr. McCone's personal memorandum for the record on this
meeting (dated) June 18, 1964, contains substantially the same
information. [OBTAIN COPY] It refers to a June 10, 1964, CIA
memorandum "reporting plans of Cuban exiles to assassinate
leading Cuban government leaders." This memo apparently had
been sent to Special Group members and the Attorney General.
[OBTAIN COPY] McCone's memo contains the following:

"ACTION: Discuss with General Carter and Mr. Helms steps we
should take to establish tthe credibility. of the report; also
communicate with the FBI through Mr. Papich. Also I should

call the Attorney General’ personally.'

: The official minutes of the July 30, 1964, 303 Committee
meeting (dated July 31, 1964) (referred to in 1967 IG report)
contain no mention of assassination or even of Cuba.

_Mr. McCone's personal memorandum (dated July 31, 1964) had
only the following nefexence to Cuba:

"Proposed infiltration/exfiltration operations into Cuba for
August were approved and ithe July operations were noted. >

File: Counterinsurgency - January ~ June, 1962
File: _Counterinsuegency - January — Sune, 1962

Nothing relevant.

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Envelope - "Cuba Loose Ends" a ;
Much information on Mongoose. No mention of assassination.

Envelope containing FBI report of October 16, 1963, entitled
"Communism and the Negro! Movement = A Current Analysis" -
contains comments on Dr.’ King's personal life. Relayed by
J. Edgar Hoover to McCone. , ‘

File: "Cuba - Background Material"

This file contains only material relating to the Cuban. missile
crisis. It contains no references to any assassinations.

File: "White House" 7

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This file, covering 1962; and 1963, contains correspondence
to, from, and of interest to the White House. .

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The file entitled "Cuba Package" does not appear to be in this ;
-box. The name of this file, however, appears on the page which
-_purports to list the files in the box.

File: Cuba 1962

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Nothing relevant to assassinations.

File: Cuba _ 1964
February 21, 1964, memorandum for the Director of Central
Intelligence from Desmond FitzGerald, Chief, Special Affairs
Staff, entitled "Spectrum of Courses of Action with Respect

to Cuba." This nine~page memorandum outlines many possible
courses of action which the U.S. Government could take with
respect to Fidel Castro even including measures as drastic as
an actual invasion of the island by U.S. military forces. It,
however, contains no mention or reference to possible assassi-~
nation of Castro. |

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BOX 6: MISCELLANEOUS

File: Presidential Briefing, December 22, 1964
Nothing relevant to assassination.

File: "M" File > ; |

Nothing relevant to our subject of interest.

. . poo
File: "Dp" File. .
at | .
This file contains papers dealing with the services of Allen
Dulles as a consultant to the Agency after his retirement.
There is no mention of the subject in which we are interested.

File: oye File

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‘dt was around 1:72 in the afternoon, Cuban time. We
were having lunciin the living room of the modest
summer residence which Fidel Castro owns on magni-
ficent “Varadero Beach, 120 kilometers from Havaina.
For at feast the tenth time, I was questioning the Cuban
icader on details of the negotiations with Russia before

the missile installations last year. The telephone rang,

a secretary in guerrilla garb announced that Me. Dor

icés, President of i } mont

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en
me

tunica ee Base Minas, Fidel picked] up’

the phone and [ heard him say: “Conio? Un atentada?”
{What's that? An attempted assassination?”) He then
turned to-us to say that Kennedy had just been struck
down in Dallas. Then he went back to the telephone
and exclaimed in a loud voice “Herido? Muy grave-
‘viento (Wounded? Very seriously?) |
He came back, sat down, and repeated three times
-he words: “Es una mala noticia.” (“This is bad news. “y
He remained silent for a moment, awaiting another éall
with further news. He remarked while we waited that
there was an alarmingly sizable lunatic fringe in mer
can society and that this decd could equally wel i have
ve ne work of a madman or of a terrorist. Perhaps a
Vietnamese? Or a member of the Ku Klux Klan? The

~econd call came through: it was hoped they would Ibe .

abie to announce that the United ‘States Preside ont was

“ill ative, that there was hope. of saving him. Fidel
“TF they can, he) is

Castro’s immediate reaction was:
iready re-elected.” He pronounced these words with
satisfaction. i ;

This sentence was a sequel to a conversation we had
acid on a previous evening and which had turned into
an all-nignt session. To be precise, it lasted from 1olin
the evening until 4 in the morning. A good part jof
the talk revolved about the impressions I recounted
to him of an interview which President Kennedy
granted me this last October 24, and about Fidel
Castro’s reactions to these impressions. During this
nocturnal discussion, Castro had delivered himself lof

2 relentless indictment of US policy, adding that in, the,

recent past Washington had had ample opportunity

to normalize its relations with Cuba, but that instead ;

it had tolerated a CIA program of training, equipping
and organizing a counter-revolution. He had told me

sat he wasn’t in the least fearful of his life, since -

danger was his natural milieu, and if he were to become:

i victim of the United States this would simply en-
ha. his radius of influence in Latin America as w cll
as throughout the socialist world. He was speaking, he

said, from the viewpd®t of the interests of peace jin
.
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in, Vallero would translate it for. Fidel:

ie Net
mre

LeAre th ws

porn he American. CONTINGHS amtemachieve this godt, a

leader would have'to arise in the United States capable
of ur. derstanding the explosive realities of Latin Amer-
ica and of meeting them | halfway. Then, suddenly, he
had taken a less hostile tack: “Kennedy could still be
this man. He still has the possibility of becoming,
in the eyes of history, the greatest’ President of the

United States, the leader who may at last understand:

that there can be coexistence between capitalists and
socialists, even in the Americas. He would then be
an even greater President than Lincoln. I know, for
example, that for Khrushchev, Kennedy is a man you
can talk with. I have gotten this impression from all
my conversations with Khrushchev. Other leaders nave
assured me that to attain this goal, we must first await

his re-election. Personally, | consider him responsible

for everything, but I will say this: he has come to
understand many things -over the past few. months;
and then.too, in the last analysis, I’m convinced that
anyone else would be woise.” Then Fidel had added
with a broad and boyish grin: “IF you see him again,
you can-tell him that Vssgsiglling to declare Goldwater
my friend if that will guarantee Kennedy's re-election!”

This conversation was heid on November 19.

Now it was nearly 2

Commandant Vallero; his physiclan, aide-de-camp, and
intimate friend, was easily able to get the broadcasts
from the NBC network in Miami. As the news came
Kennedy
wounded in the head; pursuit of the assassin; murder
of a policeman; finally the fatal announcement: Presi-

_ dent Kennedy is dead. Then Fidel stood up and said to

me: “Everything is changed. Everything is going to
change. The United States occupies such a position in
world affairs that the death of a President of that
country affects millions of people in every corner of
the glabe. The cold war, relations with Russia, Latin
America, Cuba, the Negro question... all will have to
be rethought. I'll tell you one thing: at least Kennedy
was an enemy to whem we had become accustomed.

This is a serious matter, an extremely serious matter.”

After the quarter-hour of silence observed by all
the American radio stations, we once more tuned in
on Miami; the silence had only been broken by a re-
broddeasting of 'the American national anthem. Strange
indeed was the impression made, on hearing this hyma
ring out in the house of Fidel Castro, in thé midst of a
circl: of worried faces. “Now,” Fidel said, “they sill
haw to find the assassin quickly, but very quick] y,

7

o'clock and we got up from.
the table and settled ourselves in front of a radio.


bdbhog
otherwise, you watch and see, | know them, they wil
try te put the blame on us for this thing, But tell ir
how many Presidents have been assassinated? Eoin:
This is most disturbing! In Cuba, only onc has bees
assassinated. ¥f snow, when we were hiding gut il
Sierra there were some (notin m f ian:
other) who wanted to kill Batista. They thought they
could do away with a regime by decapitating it. I have
always been violently opposed to such methods. First
of all from the viewpoint of political self-interest, be-
cause so far as Cuba is concerned, if Batista had been
killed he would have been replaced by some military
~ figure who would have tried to make the revolutionists
pay for the martyrdom of the dictator. But I was also
opposed to it on personal grounds; assassination is
repellent to me.” Oo l ;

The broadcasts were now resumed. One reporter
felt he should mention the difficulty Mrs. Kennedy
was having in getting tid of her bloodstained stockings.
Fidel exploded: “What sort of a mind isithis!” He re-
peated the remark several times: “What sort of a
mind is this? There is a difference in our civilizations
after all. Are you like this in Europe?| For us Latin
Americans, death is a sacred matter; not only does it
mark the close of hostilities, but it also imposes de-
cency, dignily, respect. There are even ‘strect urchins
who behave like kings in the face of death, Incidentally,
this reminds me of something else: if:you wrile all

7 1
those things I told you yteraday against Kennedy's
policy, don’t use his name now; speak instead of the
policy of the United States government.(/

Toward 5 o'clock, Fidel Castro declared that since
there was nothing we could do to alter the tragedy, we
must try to put our time to good use in ‘spite of it. He
waited to accompany me in person on a visit to a
granja de pueblo (state farm), where hd had been en-
gaging in some experiments. His present obsession is
agriculture. He reads nothing but agronomical studies

and reports. He dwells lyrically on the soil, fertilizers, -
and the possibilities which will give [Cuba. enough ~

sugar cane by 1970 to achieve. economic] independence.

“Didn't | Tell You’ |
We went by car, with the tadio oh. The Dallas
police were now hot on the trail-of the assassin. He
is a Russian spy, says the news commentator. Five
minutes later, correction: he is. a spy married to a
Russian. Fidel said: “There, didn’t T tell you; itll be

= my.turn next.” Butuqsh yer. The next word was: the

assassin is a Marxist deserter. Then the word came
through, in effect, that the assassin was a young man
who was a member of the “Fair Play for Cuba Com-
mittee,” that he was an admirer of Fidel Castro. Fidel
declared: “If they had had proof, they would have said

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he was an agent, an accomplice, a hired killer. In
saying simply that he is an admisgc, this is just to try
and make an association in people's minds between the
name of Castro and the emotion awakened by the
assassination. This is a publicity method, a propaganda
device. It's terrible. But you know, I’m sure this wall -
all soon blow over. There are too many competing
policies in the United States for any single one to be
able to impose itself universally for very long.” :

We arrived at the granja de pueblo, where the farm-
ers welcomed Fidel. At that very moment, a speaker
announced over the radio that it was now known that
the assassin is a “pro-Castro Marxist.” One commen-
tator followed another; the remarks became increas-
ingly emotional, increasingly aggressive. Fidel then
excused himself: “We shall have to give up the visit
to the farm.” W. ‘aL e
he could telephone Pesiidaiimdacticns, On the way he
had questions: “Who is Lyndon Johnson? What is his
reputation? What were his relations with Kennedy?
With Khrushchev? What was his position at the time of
the attempted invasion of Cuba?” Finally’ and most
important of all: “W} it ercise
over the CIA?” Then abruptly he looked at his watch,
caw that it would be half an hour before we reached
Matanzas and, practically on the spot, he dropped off to
sleep. :

After Matanzas, where he must have decreed a state
of alert, we returned to Varadero for dinner. Quoting
the words spoken to him by a woman shortly before,
he said to me that it was an irony of history for the
Cubans, in the situation to which they had been ‘re-
duced by the blockade, to have ta mourn the death of
a President of the United States. “After all,” he added,
“there are perhaps some peopie in the world to whom
this news is cause for rejoicing. The South Vietnamese
guerrillas, for example, and also, I would imagine,
Madame Nhu!”

‘T thought of the people of Cuba, accustomed to the
sight of posters like the one depicting the Red Army
with maquis superimposed in front, and the screaming
captions "ALT, MR. KENNEDY! CUBA I$ NOT ALONE. . + “
T thought of all those who had been led to associate
their deprivations with the policies of President John

F, Kennedy.

At dinner I was able to take up all my questions.
What had motivated Castro to endanger the peace of
the world with the missiles in Cuba? How dependent
swags Cuba on the Soviet Union? Is it not possible to

- envisage relations between Cuba ansthe United States

along the.same lines as those between Finland and the
Russians?’ How was the transition made from the

“humanism of Sierra Maestra to the Marxism-Leninism

of 1961? Fidel Castro, once more in top form, had an
explanation for everything. Then he questioned me


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, Drecineg 71 10635 ,
i once more on Kennedy, and each time | culogized tse and Czechoslovakian trucks, a certain American emon
' intellectual qualities of the “ssassinated President, | Hon vibrated in the almosphere, compounded of re.
awakened the keenest interest in him, sentment, of concern, of anxiety, ‘yet also, in Spite of
The Cubans have lived with the United tates in everything, of a Mysterious almast imperceptible Tap-
that cruel intimacy so familiar to me of the colonized Prochement, After all, this American Prosident was able
with their colonizers, Nevertheless, it Was an intimacy, to reach accord with our Russian Friends during his
oy In that very seSctive city of Havana to avnich we re. lifetime, Said a young Cuan eri loctual to me asl was,
‘ turned-in the evening, where the luminous signboards taking my leave. [bywas almost as though he were apolo-
i. with Marxist slogans have replaced the Coca Cola and gizing for nat rejoicing at the Assassination, .
a toothpaste billboards, in the midst of Soviet exhibits JEAN Dante

“Robert Frost role 50 years aga, “lot hing 1S true except as aman or men

adhere to it~ ty live for it, to SpeHa theniselves oy it, to die for it’ Ve

need this SPtrif cpon More than INONCY OF institiions op agreements
-Joun F, KEennepy, November 18, 1963

By Saturday night, even the television seemed worn News, that is trying to listen to news because their
out by attempt and failure and ceased to comment and reai job was to hear Hight control. There had been a
Beave over to a succession of Photographs of the col- pun battle in Dallas; a patrolman was Killed; the police
'mns and the Windows and the corners of the White had taken a man in Tievie theater, Vice President
House and of the shadows af the great Lincoln head . Johnson was now the President. The talk of business
in Springfield and to a4 voice reciting “Oh, Captain, “went on through this, and stopped only when the cap-
My Captain.” Tt is to be, then, the grand style. But the tain again interrupted to say that the new President had
ship has. not weathered Every storm; Mr. Kennedy is been sworn in aboard an aircraft, A fey laughed,
not Abraham Lincoln: not because he is more or less, , :
but because he is a remembered physical presence and Thev ask too much of us when they ask us to act up -
Mr. Lincoln an image of the plastic arts. Ono’s own to the grand style. We are not an emotionally affluent :
time iS personal, noi historical, Just how long will it be people. And yet some of us always complained that
before many of us will want to read a book about the Mr, Kennedy did-not seem quite emotionally commit.

day Mr, Kennedy was shot? . ted enough. But Now someone remembered with special

, , _ affection a moment late in the 1960 campaign. Mr. .
The news of the President's Assassination was Siven Kennedy Was in a motorcade and the Democratic gov- Hl
by a taxi driver fo three gentlemen as they left a hotel ernor who was with him said how wonderful ibwasto il.
(On Arlington Strest in’ Boston.- They turned right feel the love vith which these crowds pressed forward .
around and hurried back inside tg attend to their in- to feel the touch of their candidate, “Oh, dry up,” Mr, . a
vestments. Packed with students jod businessmen ‘a. Kennedy said. It seemed now somehow a Special grace

shuttle plane from Boston to Washington waited for in him that he used only the real in emotion and ab-
permission to take off when the Captain came-on the stained from fabricating the expected. He had too much

intercom: “Folks, up here on the flight deck we've been _ tespect for the grand style to counterfeit it; how much
listening to the news and the President is dead.” There truer to him might we have been if we had come down
was only time to hear one woman say, “How dread- An scale and if the many of us who must have remem.
ful” before three men went back to discussing plan - bered the lines from Cymbeling had thought them
specifications, A college student reading Agamemnon proper lo speak ;

Pe" 50 visible attention. One of his notes read, “love.

in-.e.” The plane took off, the stewardess collected “Fear no more the heat of the sun/Nor the furious
the money and started tg Serve drinks. Then the cap. Winter’s rages, . ;
tain was back ‘againggehey had been listening to more Thou thy worldly task hast done/Home. art thou

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Flash from Dallas

Just as Secret Service men reacted instinctively, rushing to protect the
presidential party, reporters reacted instinctively to get the news—sketchy
as it was at first—to the world. United Press International's Merriman
Smith, dean of the White House correspondents, describes on pages 32-33
his frantic rush to call the Dallas UPI bureau. Reproduced here is the result
of Smith’s first efforts—the actual Teletype copy that almost immediately
clacked -out of hundreds of UPI machines in newsrooms, radio and
television stations, pressrooms, and business offices all over the world.

"" BETECTIVES WERE THERE AND THEY ASKED KIM TO LOOK IN THERE (THE SRIEF-~
CASE) FOR SOMETHING .“. :

THE CASE WAS OPENED AND AN ENVELOPE WAS FOUNG CONTAINING 44 $100
alLLS, THE WITNESS SAID. THE STATE HAD SAID IT ¥OULD PRODUCE THAT
PIECE OF EVIDENCE BUT IT HAD NOT LISTED IT AS ONE “OF THE SEVEN
LINKS" THE DEFENSE HAS IMPLIED IT WILL TAKE THE LINE THAT CAROL'S |
DEATH AFTER A SAVAGE SLUDGEONING AND STABBING IN HER HOME WAS THE
RESULT OF AN ATTEMPTED . MOREDAL2Z34PCS

UPI ATN DA
PRECEDE KENNEDY .
DALLAS, NOV, 22 CUPL)-° THREE SHOTS WERE FIRED AT PRESIDENT KENNEDY’S

MOTORCADE TODAY IN DOWNTOWN DALLAS.
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2ND ADD 2ND LEAD THOMPSON MINNEAPOLIST
BUOS HO

UPHOLD

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UPI A8N DA ;
URGENT
1ST ADD SHOTS, DALLAS CATN) XXX DOWNTOWN DALLAS.

NO CASUALTIES WERE REPORTED. ,
THE INCIDENT OCCURRED NEAR THE COUNTY SHERIFF ’S OFFICE ON MAIN
STREET, JUST EAST OF AN UNDERPASS LEADING TOWARD THE TRADE MART WHERE

THE PRESIDENT WAS TO HA

FLASH

FLASH

KENNEDY SERIOUSLY WOUNDED
PERHAPS SERIOUSLY

PERHAPS FATALLY BY ASSASSINS BULLET
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At 12:34 the Teletype was |
supplying copy ona
Minneapolis murder trial.

The Dallas bureau, alerted by
Smith over radiotelephone from
the press car as it careered
toward the hospital, sends out
the first sparse news.

Minneapolis starts to add more
details on the murder trial. The
New York bureau, knowing

that ace reporter Smith is covering
the President's trip, tells all ;
bureaus to “uphold”—get off the
wire. “Dallas, it’s yours.”

Atlanta tries to interrupt, but is
quickly squelched by the
New York bureau.

The Dallas operator begins

sending the rest of Smith’s account
from the press car. ;

At the hospital, Smith sees the

_ President's limp body in the car

and racestoatelephone. At
12:39, nine minutes after the
shooting, the grave news flashes
over the wire.

UPI ON
BULLETIN
IST LEAD SHOOTING

DALLAS, NOV. 22 CUPI>-~PRESIDENT KENNEDY AND GOV. JOHN B. CONNALLY
OF TEXAS WERE CUTDOWN BY AN ASSASSIN’S BULLETS AS THEY TOURED

DOWNTOWN DALLAS IN AN OPEN AUTOMOBILE TODAY.
MORE UTIZ41 PCS

UPI ALON DA ot
1ST ADD IST LEAD SHOOTING DALLAS (ON DALLAS XX TODAY.

THE PRESIDENT, HIS LIMP BODY CRADLED IN THE ARMS OF HIS WIFE, WAS
RUSHED TO PARKLAND HOSPITAL. THE GOVERNOR ALSO WAS TAKEN TO PARKLAND.
CLINT HILL, 4 SECRET SERVICE AGENT ASSIGNED TO MRS. KENNEDY, SAID
WES DE&aD,7 AS THE PRESIDENT WAS LIFTED FROM THE REAR OF A WHITE HOUSE
sOURING CAR, THE FAMOUS “3UBSLETOP™ FROM WASHINGTON. - HE WAS RUSHED

TO AN EMERGENCY ROOM IN THE HOSPITAL.

OTHER WHITE HOUSE OFFICIALS WERE IN DOUST AS THE CORRIDORS OF THE
MOSPITAL ERUPTED IN PANDEMONIUM.

THE INCIDENT OCCURRED JUST EAST OF THE TRIPLE UNDERPASS FACING A

PARK IN DOWNTOWN DALLAS.
REPORTERS ABOUT FIVE CAR LENGTHS BEHIND THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE

HEAR
MORE L44aPEs

UPT ALIN DA . - ‘
ND ADD 1ST LEAD SHOOTING CON DALLAS) XXX DALLAS.
REPORTERS ABOUT FIVE CAR LENGTHS SEHIND THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE
HEARD WHAT WOUNDED LIKE THREE SURST OF GUNFIRE, -
SECRET SERVICE AGENTS IN A FOLLOW-UP CAR QUICKLY. UNLIMBERED THEIR
AUTOMATIC RIFLES. . :
THE BUBBLE TOP OF THE PRESIDENT‘S CAR WaS DOWN.
THEY DREY THEIR PISTOLS, SUT THE DAMAGE WAS DONE.
THE PRESIDENT “4S SLUMPED OVER IN THE BACKSEAT OF THE CAR FACE
_ DOWN, CONNALLY LAY ON THE FLOOR OF THE REAR SEAT.
IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL AT ,
MORE 145PES

UPI AL2N DA

If waS IMPOSSI3LE TO TELL AT ONCE WHERE KENNEDY WAS HIT, 3UT BULLET
WOUNDS IN CONNALLY’S CHEST WERE PLAINLY VISIBLE, INDICATING THE GUNFIRE
MIGHT POSSIBLY HAVE COME FROM AN AUTOMATIC WEAPON.

THERE WERE THREE LOUD BURSTS. :

: DALLAS MOTORCYCLE OFFICERS ESCORTING THE PRESIDENT QUICKLY LEAPED
FROM THEIR BIKES AND RACED UP & GRASSY KILL.

MORE 146PES

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Now reporter Smith is dictating a
story ready for: printing.

Smith rolls on, swiftly and

-fluently, adding fresh details as

“pandemonium” breaks out
in the corridor outside his
telephone niche.

Searching his mind for
impressions of the shooting,
Smith adds all he can remember
to the story. The shaken wire
operator stumbles in the

second line.

As yet nothing is known of the
sniper, what kind of weapon

he used, or where the

shots came from.

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Deputy Under Secretary of State, Johnson told Katzenbach that insofar as
the investigation of this matter in Mexico is concerned, the State Department _—_
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a . | oo s+ danuary 28, 1976
The Honorable Otis Fike; Chatman ok _
House Select Committers on -Tatelligence,
Rayburn Houses Office Building, |
Washington, D.C. 20515 i

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Dear Congressman Pike:

Congratulations on your. Comittee? S$ groat servico to the Arerican elece
torate in removing some of the mask of gs scerecy from the domestic covers
ie hee us and funding of the CIA. Secresy protecte a countorprodustive

nd indefensible cavers operations for tucnty=seven years, The light
of exposure and cleansing lg now enhancing. our countigts security. The.
pubs ishing of your excellent report over CIA and Waite House objections
is an set of courage the electorate will soon apprecicte.

Relisnee, however, by any Congressional committee on Tandouts fron the

CIA itself, is like an investigative reporter com ~pllirg his story froa
government press relecses, Neither is doing the job ths employer paid.
it to doe ;

‘Finding the hidden CIA budget2 for three or four tines the billions of

dollars adauitted to the electorate is a co: anandavle adiigvaenent. Bub
what would your investigators have achieved if a law is alroady in |
force imposing criminal ponalties upon CIA enployeos uio leaked infor-
mation to you? The CIA proposed eeerecy law dis a bplacaail Weapons
Intelligence, meney and secrecy. combina to constitute auboeratie power
in cur scelety. The Congrcas enjoys no antei his gonce s:rvicn of its

om, .I% enjeys no-offsetive control ove ponding of funds hidden in
the budgat ~S Of non-CIA denartments and agencice,. if & surrendars to
the doctrine of sectecy it is ponerless indeed. To stungthen Congrenst

powsr I offer you my om counterintelligence service it Place, . The
sources have been carefully tested and Accumulated sime 19))9,

Toe problen.is. not ‘leaking intelligence out of Comni.t tes it is leaking
independent intelligence Into 48. Starting exactly one year ago today
I launched penetration offorty with a 19 pegs report akiressed ta
"Chairman and Members, Select Committees on Intelligenma Cperations.

I hend delivered this report to every comnittes member's office.. My
wife Nancy recorded the date, hour and person deliveret to.

On June 25, 1975 Edward Roeder TII of your staff receiwted for 103
pages of counterintellivence:on CIA. This -representeda distillation
of a quarter century of inScliigence gathering. CIA catrol of the
Wateryate treakin and coverup and CIA's investigation ¢ my penotration
of their secrets is covered, The application to the t,s. Attornay and
three U. S, Special Prosesutorg requesting investigatia. and prosecution
of murder of American citizens within the U.S.A. is inyour files, oo
Nevertheless, none of this intelligence leaked to recomition ox invos-
tigation within the executive departments or your Comittese

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On July 30, 1975 Emily Sheketoff! of your staff receipted for a one page
notification distributed to chairmen and menbvers thab Anne P. Commandue
ras, an employes of GIA's domestic assansination offiec, had been mur-
doved in her apartment houge swhening pool by CLA assussin Eugene Hale
Bredinge

I now enjoy tha additional intelligence that Comanduras was executed
with a CYA daes gun auch os that displayed to neys cameras by a menber
of the Sonate Intelligence Committes, The iatcMigence weapon fires a
Sliver coated with shellfish toxin that killa within .sccond3, dissolves
and saves no mavk. The CIA preserved thelr shellfish toxin supply in
direct contravention of an order of the President. Your Cennittee filed
thig raport wibhout action oheng with over 200 adiiltilonal counterintel-
ligence. Is this secrecy t ab protests nablonal security?

Conzres sian Pike, you have exposed 310 billion of CIA funding mostly .
hidden in anothar budget. Whll you go for mors? Then exanaine the
State Cepartment, Trecaury Department, Justice Nepartment, ialte House
_omd Congress aprropriationa., All of these support personnel accepting
orders for covert domestic operations from CIA,

You have uncovered CIA operations in the media, Investigate police
departments throughout the nation funded by LEAA that are responsive to
CIA orders. In the Fairfax County, Virginia, polica departvens alona

a Gia assassin has tyice employed the badge of the doparteont as cover
to gain entrance to domiciles to perform. executions.

I asain command your Conntttes for resis ting the pressure for secrecy
in publishing your report. I deplore your resistance to the leaking
of intelligence into your Comittee, The latter confines your Com-
mittes's intelligence to official and unofficial leaking channels of
the CIA. Pleasa consede that thore are other citizens as concerned
for the security of Awarica as you are.

I respectfully request opportunity to “confer with you, Congressman Pike,
or with your capable, diligent and hoacst staff chief, A. Searle Field,
I want to assist your Committees in recommonding renpdiad legislation
based upon 27 years of Ucfining. the problem,

Respectfully submitted,

Amos E. Haacock
hh1lO Czlethorpe, Apt. 708,
Hyattsville, Md, 20781

; - Telephone: 864-5353
Encl: Lotters to Senator ;
Abrahaa Ribicoff and to
‘Senator Frank Churche

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RICHARG A, WEGMAN
CiNEF COUNSEL AND STAFF DIRECTOR

th ae Wrnrited States Senate

COMMITTEE ON
GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20519
March 8, 1976

Mr, Amos E. Heacock ;

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Dear Mr. Heacock: CD) SI p>3975

Thank you for writing to me regarding your knowledge of
the activities of the Central Intelligence Agency. I understand
that you have discussed these questions at length with members
of the Committee staff.

On March 1 the Committee reported S. Res. 400 creating
a Senate Committee on Intelligence Activities. The legislation
which was before us concerned only the establishment of a new
congressional committee; it did not involve revisions that. would
significantly modify the Structure or the powers of the CIA it-
self. The Committee has not been authorized to hire additional
staff personnel for the purpose of this legislation. Further-
more, we were under instructions from the Senate to report out a4.

formal recommendation in the form of legislation by March 1.

I am, however, deeply concerned with the charges you
have made because, if true, they represent grave examples of
corruption and criminality. It is my hope and intent that the
new committee created by the legislation we are considering,

once it is established, will have the jurisdiction and the re-
sources to explore the kind of issues which you raise.

I assure you that the entirety of the information you
have submitted to my committee will be made available to the
new Congressional oversight committee,

I am sure you understand the constraints on the Govern-
ment Operations Committee which prevent us. from undertaking the
investigations you suggest, but I shall forward the material
you submitted to the new committee as soon as it is established. |.

‘For your information, I am enclosing a copy of S. Res.
400 and a copy of the committee's report on this measure.

Sincerely, j

Abe. Ribicoff

Enclosures (2)

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January 28, 1976

The Honorable Abraham Ribleoff, Chaimnan
Gommittse on Government Operations,
United States Senate !
Dirksen Senate Office Building
‘Veshington, D. C. 20510.

Dear Senator Riblicoff:

Destiny has chosen you tha second time in seven years to chair a com-
mittee with capability of establishing logislativa remedies to prevent
domestic and foreign agsassinutions, huve corruption ulthin military
supply streams, multi billien doller currency manipulation and massive
intervention of the CIA in demstile covert operations,

On or about March 6, 1959 you were the scsing chairman of the Permanent
Investigations Subcomaittes that heard Cornslius Hawkridge, my witness,

. degerthe a multi billion dollar currency manipulation racke% in South
Vietnam, Carmine Eollino, steff investigator, preventcd Havkridza from .
-alao testifying about truck conveys of astelen military army and supplies
that he odserved heading toward the Ganbodia beordexs, tae "Zeneca for ,
these stolen arms was the fabulous Soviet KGB areas Jarques Yang, das=
eribad by staf? in your hearings to ba a mera Viatnamgsa comalssary
clork, The orgauszad erime vendors of the stelen goods reached inte
your Comittee in Caraine Bellino to prvtags their hucrative vackate
Hawseidca later wrote you a latter covaring this deficiency in testi-
nonye He pointad out the sale of aras generated funds uged in cure
rency monipulation. oe

I aided the cripplod Hauviridge abourd nis flight at Sesttle., Your Con-
mittas provided aa ambulance to meet hin for it was loss tosn two | ;
montis gince he survived an assaagsination abbenps that killed hig wife.
The Soviet KGB lat a contract with organized erimea’s CiA assassination
fecilities to idll them. Tho KGB considered Hawkridge a defector. |
Whlliaa 3. Wood, alias Willian Poxley, CIA alias Willica Harvey and
double agont for KGB fingered Hawkridgs and his wile Augela, a "baby
sitter! agent for West German and CIA intelligence. a the contrived
truck-car "accident" Hawkridve was crippled for life.

Imot with CIA's Yarvey as Boxlny in Noverbsar, 1968, 4: New Ovlcans
pursuant to my counterintelligenca investigations, Harvey, witnass
before the Sonate Intalligence Committea, has adnitted his role as

organizer of the ZR/RIFLS Executive Action assassinatisn capability
and his contacts with John Roaselli and Sam Gianeana of organized erhag
to implement that capability. Harvey incorrectly jue d to the conclue
gion for the XGB that Hawtridge was a cooparative sourta of much of ny
accurate: counterintalligenco on KGB.

'

Hawkxridgs had precipitated your investivzation by appeaing to a Troasury
official. The official prevailed upon Senator John Mcslellan, thon

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Chairman of your Comaittsa, to conduct it. He first exposed tha fasougs
Nppysunean" account in a New York bank. It was used to convert’ South
Vietnamese piasters to dollars, mogt of which ended up in three banks
in the shiekdom of Dubai on the Porsian Gulf.

My further investigation beyond the Comiittac probe, sabotaged by Bel-
lino, estadlished ths dollars ware used to requisition gold ingots
froa the U. S. treasury at $35 per ounce, These were renelted to con-
venient "taels" or wafors of gold for black market trading for Indo~
china currencies again at huge discounts. ‘The conspirators enjoyed
government facllities for converting plasters to dollars at fantaatl-~
cally unrealistic official exchange rates. The exchange provided huge
profits to conspirators and huge losses to the Treasury.

This inflation machine is still at work, though at a reduced rate since
the end of the war in Southeast Asia. The entrepreneurs seek greencr
pastures where new ward dostebiliee currencies. Pernaps Angola?
Hawkpidge's real nase is Cornel Solyon. His intolligence activities
for a decade vere traced in 2.6) page report in the possession of tha
Senate and House Intelligenca Comaittees and your Committee,

Senator Ribicoff, had the activities of CTA-Crime double agent Carmine
Bellino and Hawkridge's testimony been exposed in the puolie record in
1969, the tramia for you, for your Comitter, for the Congress and for
the American electorate would hava been isercifully softened. Bellino
wont on to become Caief Investigator for the Senate Watergate Committee.
He covered up the sources of $1,050,000 of so-called political donor
funds I have traced, He went on to instruct CIA agent Aloxander But-
terfield in the waite Housa to reveal the existonce of tha President's
tapes, thereby insuring his domfall.

A file of my letters to Senator Henry Jackson in 1969 were sont by hin

to your Conmittes, The intelligence waa suppressed by Ballina, Although
your Conmittss published eigns yolunes of hearings. in this investigation,
Hauxridge!s vital testinony was deleted. My intelligence was disregarded.

The legislative remedies now teing proposed to counter corruption of our
intolligence services can only be made adequata by exposing to public ,
view tho depth of the problem of secrecy. I an alarmed at demands for
secrecy bo support CIA covert operations such as those that Led our
eountry into the most counterproductive covert operation din our nabion'ts

history -< the war in Vietnan. Did the secrecy imposed by Rellino with-
in your Committee advance the security of the United States? Or did it
jnsura the greatsat Humiliation of our forsijm policy and our atmad
forees since the birth of our repubdlic 200 yearg ago?

Tam alarmed that criminal penalties are being proposed for public ser~

vants whose conscience Lspels them to notify Congress and the public of
. irresponsible actions of men infected with the arroganca of power, T

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January 28, 1976 ore

"he Honorable Frante Church, Chairman | Ref: My lettor 11/20/74

Seleet Committee on Intelligence | uN & enel, to Son. Welkar
United States Senate, foruaried & acknovledged
Russell Offieo Bullding, =: . . "your letter 1/7/15; your
Washington, De C. 20510 ; eo - (acknowledgement data

5/5/2753. my letter 7/11/75.

Dear Senator Church:

I commend the diligent efforts of you, the members and the staff in produce
ing and especially in publishing the Committea's report’ on "Allaged Assasa~
ination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders,"

Nevertheless, I must adviso you that over 200 pages of counterintelligence

on domestic and foreign assasainations of the CIA I have provided or made
available to staff and members has been disvegardsd or deliborately with-
held fron member'd. . - . .

Conssquently, as members are preparing to sign a final report, it is tinely —
to list some of the disastrous arrors of the interia report, The errors

aro the result of intentions] misropresentation and deceit of the Congress
and the “American electorate by the CIA, its directors and employoese

(1) Tae ZR/RTFLE Execubive Action program begun in 1960, headed by W1l-
liam Harvey, was designed’ as a domestic asgassination capability.

(2) Under the direct planning and implementation of Harvey, a number of |
domostic and foroign assassinations ware exacuted.

(3) Harvey's real nana is William 5S, Wood, alias Williaa Boxley, alias
W. J. Wwod. His assassinations in USA I have already reported,

(4) Anong foroign assassinations with participation by Neod's domestic
team mendera on foreign duty are those of Lununmba and Trujillo.

(5) Ordera passed by CIA for execution, rather than oxiling. or kidnapping,
cauged the deaths of Ngo Diem, Ngo Nhu and Rene Schneidar.s

(6) CIA gave the code naze WI/NT to the organized criac assassination
congultent employed to insure the killing of Patrice Lumumba, His
peal name is Michael Genovese, alias VYietor Rasignio, son of Vito ,

Genovese, boss of bouses of the Mafia in Atlanta fedexsal prison
until he died. Genoveas enjoyed assassination authority indapendan’
of CIA directors delegated by Meyer Lansky, boss of tho American
international crime syndicate then, Neithar President BRisenhower nor
Presidant Kennedy confsrsod as3aszsination authority upon CIA.

(7) Genovese, as Victor Resignio, directed an armas and supplies diversion
and currency manipulation racket in South Vietnan in 1966-67 that cost
the Treasury $51.8 billion, Executive Dopartaents! total, not mino.

(8) Wood's crime team ember that aided Genovese to assure Lumumbats death
was code named WI/RCGUE., He is Frank Sturgis, Watergate burglar.

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0) Sho efleld Edwatdg, witness produced by CIA as its Director of Secure
ity, wea a spurious subd titution to decelve the Cenmlotes and. thn
Amgrican electorate. Recruited from organised crime, GIA coached
him to appear as the Edvards or Colonel Edwards who directed tho

early alleged attempts to asgassinata Fidel Castro,

The real Eduwardg who collab porated with organics! erime's hit man Jchn
Rosselli, his boss Sam Ginncana and Rovert iabeu,: agen’ of Howard
Hugnes, oll-tool billi. onuire, was B. Howard tarts, Watergato burglar.

Edvards was Hunt's CIA name, 2 CIA poisoned Sheffield Edwards
after his appearance to prevent ba recall and possible cxposure ag
a fraud. .

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(10) John Rosselli aceepted abdassination omiers fron nob leader Glancana_
who accepted orders in ven from Meyer Lanslye
(11) Comaities witness Roselli wag the hit man who slot Giancana with a
special assassination weapon developed by CIA. He led the kidnapping
7 and execution of Jancs Hotta, one tine Teansters' president -- even
as your hoarings progressed.
if
(12) Witness Robert Hahue oxncuted the orders of Howart Hughes in contact-
Ang Rossolli to implenent a domestic assassinaticr. capability through
organised eri, Hughes ‘issued orders to assassimte Fromier Ngo
Dien through Richard G. Danner, allies Gil Danner.

Danner precipitated the Hughes order to bug Laurece O'Brien's tole-
phone in the Watergate complex by being. caught fosarding a $100,C00
paysent on President Nixon's San Clemente and Key Bincayna homes for
Hughes to the President's friend, Bebe Raboso. Huhes susrectod a
plot by defector Maken and O'Brien to blow the eleticn for Nixon,
"Gil" Danner was manager;of the International Club in Saigon, owned
by thea U. S. Embassy. Ha represented tughes! inteest in the 351, 8
billion racket managed by Wichael Genovese.-

(13) CIA in 1949 ostablishea a Domestic Intelligence Diision for covert
action within the White Houss, the Executive Depaitments, Gongress,
political parties and the Inedia.

(4h) The Central Intelligence: ‘Ap geney Act of 1949 was ued as authorization
for CIA to implement domestic covert actions throwh funding and
personnel of domestic agencies of government. The Intelligence Dirac=
torate of GIA is cover for domestic covert actionyvin the agency itself,

I am gure you will agree that nad your staff ‘inves tigatecand confirmed ry
—counterintelligence during: the yoar it has been available to you, the legis- .
lative romedias recommended by your proliminary report wald have beon found
unacceptably weak by Comalttec, Congrass and the America:electorate. Please

permit moa to meot and serve you with counterintelligence inpute

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Respectfully submitted, (Dove £, Mark,

Encl: Letters to Sen, Amos E. Heacock, lsl0 Cplehorpe, Hyattsville,
Ribleoff & Rep, Pike 20761, telephone 864-5353. .

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am alarmed that no witness hag pointed a fingsr of blame at the Central
‘Intelligance Agency Act of 1949. It Ls tha Magna Charta of CIA's Don-
estic Intzlligence Division. “This act specifically provided cover for
CIA. It effectively repealed CIAts restriction to foreign operations
intended by Congreas to prevent a police state,

The 1949 act authorized CIA to concoal huge > porblons of its budgat and

personel within the budgets and personnel roster of domeatic agencies

of governmant. These espectally include employees on Capitol Hill,

in the Waite House, in the Departaznt of Justice, in the Federal Aviation

Adninistration and in the Chyh), Asvonauties Board. Until the act is

repealed Congress will ronain part of the problen, not part of the

solution.

I

When Comelius and Angela Hawlerddge wera hit vy the CIA's domestic

assassins on January 10, 1969): ey anger overrode my caution. I wrote

all fifteen members of the Senate Foreign Relations Comnittee February
~ 23, 1989. I demanded that Hawkridye be heard by the Senate, Although

I reteived no replies, this forced Carulne Bellino's hand and Hauk~

ridg2 was subpocnaed, The recipients referred some lettars to. your

Committacs — pe

Six nonths earlier my letter. of August ly, - 968 to the Foreign Relations

Comaittee enclosed a 606 page; jetudy entitled "Assassinations of the

_Tadustrial State." It concluded whe una tha startling Preais e I am now

i
propared to prove to the Senate

"It is my fira prediction! that when tha Foreign Relations.
Committees get to the bottom of the CIA's conspiracy to
usurp Congress! foreign policy authority. they will also
have solved the conspiracies behind the continuing
agsasginations of the industrial state.".

I rely upon your fairness for opportunity to re fute the clains of
William Colby, Director of Central Intelligence, to testify and to ald
your Comaiithas to draft legislation that will effectively prevent
abuses of power by the governient's intclligence agencies.

As an Air Force officer be fora} during and after orld War IT, I am
concerned, as I know you are, that our country's security will be pro-
tectad. I will testify for more offective legitimate intelligence and
counterintelligence services, | Perhaps the most effectiva testimony I
can pive is that which will estadlis h that the CIA has been thoroughly
infiltrated and corrupted by double agents. who owo their primary
loyalty to the Soviet KGB. =!

Reapectfull submitted, A
Oy —

Enel: Lettors to - Amos E. Heacock
Senator Frank Church. —Wsto Oglethorps, Apt. 703,
. and Congressman “"Wyattsville, Md. 20781

Otis Pike. Telephone 864-5353

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COUNTRY: © Cubas REPORT HO. HKH-1385 3

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SUBJECT: Assassination of Lt. Col. Antonio DATE: OF INFO: 28-29 hoverber 1956
BLAICO Rico Solved ;

DATE’ “ACQUIRED: 29 Koverber 1956
“PLACE ACQUIRED:Habana a pATE ‘OF. "REPORT: 30 Noverber 1956

SOURCE, SOURCE EVALUATION, APPRAISAL OF CONTENT: cuban goverment official (8)
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1. Agents of the Servicio de Inteligencia Militar sta, Cuban Military Intelligence |
Service) are reported to have identified cefinitely the assassins of Lt. Cel.
Antonio ELANCO Rico, former chief of SIM killed om 22 Octcber 1956 at the Mont-
martre nightclub. On 29 November 1956 SIM agents interrogated Dr. armando CARDENAS a
Aranguren, ‘instructor of patholosy at the University ef Kabana, end succeeded ; gee
in obtaining an admission fron CARDENAS that Juan Pedro CARGO Servid end Rolarco .
“CUBELAS Secades‘had sought refuge at his. house after the assassination of ELA‘CO
Rico and had remained there acoroximately three or four days. CARDENAS stated |
during interrcgation that CA899 had arrived at his house carrying a sub-r2chine

. gun. On the basis of CARDENAS’ aamissions, SIM officiais are convinced that

-CAREO and CUBELAS were the ones who killed elascd ‘Rico. ,

2. Implication of CARDENAS and CUBELAS resulted from ‘the interception of a cable
by SIM sent from Miami, Florida, by a friend of CUBELAS to Virginia SECASESS, 3
"- mother of CUBELAS, in Habana. On, 27 November 1956 Virginia SECACES was arrested
~ by SIM and taken.to SIM headquarters for questioning concerning her son's parti-
cipation in the assassination of BLANCO Rico. SIM agents were unable to obtain
_any infermation from SECADES concerning her son' § role in the killing but suc-
“ ceeded in learning that CARDENAS was a close friénd of her son. On 29 November
1956 SIM agents picked up CARDENAS who, under pressure, admitted that he was
. a homosexual, that CUSELAS was his intimate friend, and that he had nidcen
CUBELAS and CARBO in his home for about four days. These admissions were made
at SIM headquarters in the presence of Colonel Trenaldo GARCIA Baez, denuty
chief of SIM, Lt. Col. Marcelo TASERNILLA, who was wounded during the shooting.
of BLANCO Rico, and other high sin officials.

“3. interrogation of CARDENAS failed ‘to reveal the destination of CARBO and CUBELAS
after they. left the home of CARDENAS. - On the basis of the intercepted cable,
dated 23 November 1956, however, SIM officials believe that CARBO and CUBELAS

fled -§2, t tates by sh ip, since both possessed visas to the United
(States Jitoh piseynate: valnde4 CARBO and CUBELAS are. believed to be in Miami

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“4. SIM has transmitted the results of interrogation of SECADES and CARDENAS to _

President Fulgencio BATISTA, but the latter's reactign to these new cevelop- oe

. ments ig not known. Further action by the Cuban-authorities is complicated fs.

by the fact that the Governtent's main witness, CAPCENAS, is of dubious re- Fi.

liability, because of his homosexuality. CARDENAS js also reported to be —

the doctor of the family of Santiego VERCEJA Neyra, Minister of Cefense, who j

vouched for him wnen he was arrested by SIM. 1

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Field Comments:

1, Office files contain no previous record of CARDENAS in connection with bs
anti-BATISTA. activities. A Dr. Armando CARDENAS was listed'in Koy (cefunct oe
newspaper of the Cuban Comsunist Party), issue of 22 April 1949, as one © ee
of the persons who sent greetings to the World Corgress of Peace Partisans, Pome
scheduled to begin in Paris on 20 April 1949.

. 2, Both CARSO and CUSELAS have been the subjects in the past of denunctations ;
and arrests by the Cuban authorities as a result of their anti-EATISTA a
activities. - They were accused in August 1955 by Colonel Orlanco PIEDRA, io
chief of the Department of Investigations, of having fled from the police oe
from the site of an arms cache. In February 1956 CUBELAS was arrested and i>
tried on charges of participating in student disorders, according to articles FR

which appeared in local newspapers on 15 March 19565 and 1 April 1956. CARBO
was denounced by the Cuban police as one of BLANCO Rico's killers imzediately
after the shooting incident at the Montmartre nightclub.

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3. Office files contain no previous record of Virginia SECADES, Habana news
papers of 29 November 1956 carried an item in which the University of Habana
Student Federation protested against the detention of Virginia SECACES by
SIM. _ . a

4, Files of the Consular Section, United States Embassy, Habana, revealed
that CARBO was issued a tourist visa on 3 June 1954 and that CUBELAS re-
ceived a similar visa on 15 October 1954. The files do not indicate
whether these visas were valid for a single entry or multiple entries, but

they could still be valid, on the basis of the dates of issue.

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' ico that they had information as to the identity of the two assassins,
AIG 'S WShaming CARBO but not his accomplice, and that they were on the trail of

the latter. The police have failed to find the killers, however, and re- :
Ch portedly, under pressure from President BATISTA and General Francisco , i
TABERNILLA, Chief of Staff, Cuban Armed Forces, SIM and the police have

been making desperate efforts to solve the BLANCO Rico killing. It 4s

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possible that CARDENAS may have been forced by SIM interrogators to make
statements implicating CARBO and CUBELAS which were not altogether true.

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. 6. The local press and radio reported on 29 and: 30 Hovenber 1956 that United
States authorities were looking in hew Orleans for two Cubans who were sus-
pected of being the killers of BLANCO Rico. ‘They were identified by name as
Rolando CU3ELAS Secades and Guillermo GARCIA Riestra. The latter, wnile a
student et the University of Habana, was eccused of having participated in
an attempt against the life of Rolando MASFERRER in September 1949, accord-
ing to office files.

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7. Avance, Habana-afternoon newspaper, published the official SIM version of
‘CERDENAS' arrest on 30 November 1956; ather newsoapers carried it subse-
quently. It contained substantially the same informaticn as resorted —

in the assassination “of BLANCO Rico, alleging that PRIO had helped CARBO
and CUBELAS to escape from Cuba.-

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1. It is prepesed that at the next meeting with .

(1 UALS owe pass a nessago as follovs

"A big comandanté or capitan eho used

to bo a Lleeder of the ju university students
epenod a nuxbered (secret) account. ip
Svitzerland throug, Coleabtan Suarez (7
successor). He was traveling in burope at
that time, reughly Deceuber. 1964-dJenuary 1965.
The deposit wag in the anount of 310, ood.

_ The mossage is purposely so phrase ea than it’ cculd app
both. £74 _ and dose, Rabolloss. woth ana pant -presh
of the FEY (Federation oi University Students), © ‘
comandante and the other a captain, and beth vere
do Eurcpe in December 1964-Janus ary 1965.
Qe Subject proposal, has taken the folles jing information
into consiceration.

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en R.. Gua records The ‘file shows that, since a ~
: April 1959 and repeatedly since then ! io!
rit -. bus threatened to elininato CASTRO, but ha ; xy
i > not done so. Hoe also was reportedly on ths : _
vorgo several timas of dofecting but never dic. ,
Thero are numerous reperts of varying croait BALI2y
thnb be bas Wee@irand liv Ts Castro agent. Nis
character is such that he_has_ been des eribad..
-in_a_ report” as ‘a probabie thief, a possible.
Ty ESrlof Rareolicd,—a neaosexurl ox a_fricnd.of_.
homosexuals, " but also "an exceedingly brave
Jaan." Various reports indicats that he is a.
*e beavy drinker and a party lovor.” ibus 2 persion
swith>sach traits could resonably be belioved
to. be involved in irregular financial transactions.

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for L=| in a Eurcpean bank "forla rainy
_day.'"" In Maren 196). L-1 showed [great

sensitivity on the subject of bank accounts ~

in Rureope by & officials, fudicating that

he might shoot « oificial so involved.

c. Conclusion: While. _it-cennat bo j
discounted thot . L-l “way bea Castra_ /
tgpent,-tt-aay ba iene ho has beon sincuro so,
“ip bis dealings with C@/f 9 pesolution of 6
doubts through an  Velye RAPA. interview has
bean impossible sinew  L-f bit tho

ceiling when the matter was first nontionad.

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' _“_-/ . is to see hin carry cut bis mission I.
‘to oliminate C457£0 The sbove propesal At
‘may actually stimulate the desired action. eo ye ©

If L.-/ is questioned by the regine in _— ke.
connection with this. charge, and should the epg’. a ”.
-investigation involvo a cortain amount of Se Gl. a “4
harassment and unpleasantness, he night vell per eo 7
reach the conelusion that the tine to take , j ate
matters into his own hancs (which he‘has ie ~
threatened to do for several . years) hag at
|, Last arrived. _ cot wo se

If. L-{ ‘is a Castro agent and: wee”
Castro should be aware of _..4-/. 's relation- bo tae
pha with Gyre Castro mipht conclude that iw \y? ‘
ad | received the money fron C/4 Neaaree Wren.
‘banked it without reporting it, and was in (ph! Ae A

fact working with C/A eesinst Ca ahro-: :

(At tho recent neetings in Paris .. L£7/- 7 gh
“ askod us for $10,000. We did not give hin ~~ fe 0
tbis sun, though Vat — |] Beve bin $7,000.) - -\

.. If for. any. reason the regine showld i
do away with: -L-/ | his alleged aynpathizers » iro fans
in the Armod Forces might feol thoy must react, ‘aot a
at once to save their own skins." Given the /7@ eV “

-tense political situation in Cubs today, this “
is not out of tha question and cortainly th

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ae had raided Castro's own official fund. ; ,

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cones -Cuba and bring about further politica 1 uneasiness

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MEMORANDUM FOR: The Review Staff ;
ATTENTION: Mr. Walter Elder ; REC: - aS
VIA: : “SA/DDO ore
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SUBJECT: -  §SC Request a P her
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REFERENCE: 7 ORS 76~0083/A.(14 January 1976)

1. Re question number 1 of reference: Attachment "A" contains
the names of Agency personnel who were in Mexico City, Mexico, during
‘the period 1 September 1963 through 31 December 1963 and who are still

on duty. Attachment "B" contains the names of Agency personnel who
were in Mexico City during this same period but are now retired or no
longer on duty. It is understood that these attachments will be
retained in the Headquarters building for use by the Committee Staff.

; 2. Re question number 3(a) of reference: For your background,

‘the Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil (DRE) was a Cuban student

exile entity founded in September 1960 as an anti-Communist revolutionary
organization dedicated to the overthrow of the Castro regimes The parent
organization of the DRE was the Directorio Revolucionario (DR), a revolu-
tionary organization of Cuban students opposed to the Batista regime
which actively joined the Castro forces by organizing a guerrilla move-
ment which contributed greatly to the collapse of the Batista regime-

[The Castro government, themselves of student origin, recognized the DR
power’ and by-passed them politically by forming the new regime without
their participation. The original DR became Communist controlled and
directed. While the Agency had no role in the founding, the DRE was an
entity used by the CIA as a unilateral asset in pursuing U.S. policy
objectives. CIA support to the DRE ceased on 30 September 1966 and formally
terminated on 1 January 1967. At that time DRE files were reviewed and
material dealing with CIA support and operations were either destroyed

or turned over the JMWAVE Station. The DRE was expected to continue as
an organizational entity and continue its activities independent of CIA.

3. The DRE files of both Station JNWAVE and Weadquarters that are
available have been reviewed and Lee Harvey Oswald's name does not appear
in these files. WAVE cable 8049 (in 66782) of 22 November 1963, states
in the third sentence, "according AMSPELL files, Oswald", undoubtedly
refers to the DRE files maintained in the DRE office in Miami, Florida.

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These entity files were independent of the JMWAVE Station files. Had
Station JMWAVE referred to it's files in WAVE 8049 the cavle would have
been worded, "according AMSPELL Station files." The file of AMHINT-53,
a former executive of the DRE, has also been reviewed and no. reference
to Oswald was found. The file number which appears on WAVE 8049 is no
longer in use and the contents ‘of this former file were transferred
into Oswald's and other 201. files by the CI Staff. <A tape of the radio
debate cited in WAVE 8049 is jinctaded in the Oswald 201 held by the CI

Stafe. i

4, Re ‘question number 3(b) of reference: We have been'‘unable to
determine if Station JHWAVE was instructed to. review its files for
information on Oswald. For. many years the CI Staff has been the focal
point for tne collation of any. and all information concerning Oswald
and if the JHMWAVE files on any Cuban groups contained information on
Oswald such information should be reflected in Oswald 201 file.

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Durea cases and Lane to ask you for seme declax Budo un this! you can bealouns

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in detail”, He edds "Lasten...thst's true...of diac! imail, waat you say here in the
confidential (report), the Federals of that country wanted Sra. Silvia Duraa to say
something, that they had some interest in, and nad offered some money to: the

| Anerican? (Oswald). ‘Hernandez hemes ‘replied taat ' ‘no, no, nothing about money, no".

' Dort vicos continued speaking, "and they tried to detain ‘her, to oblige her to make
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8 | statement” - Hernandez Bays that. “she was detained, and was q estioned with respect

. to this visit and the request for: a visa, and then she said ‘that she had requested

the visa, had filed ous. sls. ceveiuieaits and the reply of our government hed been

Prasatives, no} granting the visa * _Dorticos asked if "you “spoke with her!', Hernandez Lee,

said that yes, "J could talk ta. her yesterday and r inmediately sent the report".

cn sage cae neem samen ce cet ae a ee eee eae pe errs

Dorticos: “"anderstand? if all this is true,) better that is be knowns it she is being

DrerTsinép. 9. eee
“Resa vy those people, batter too." Hernandez: ri was saying that she was.

° —"Getained Sacanday “aftemioon, a, and freed in the early morning, end yesterday was when .

-—+-foand ner end-eould-tall with hers 5 she referred Ine (2 me. peeicid) and I took

——edventese of. the fact. that. a plane was about to leave with our made ‘Dorbs Gos 37 yess

“yes, you, sent that, i _already know shat you, Bent. «+00 you. know. what_happened? thet=————

the paper that ft have here, and don't tell me that Saar that. as what -bappencd? _ oo __

Hernandez: _ “What i have Just told you besides the. interrogation. Dorticos: ‘What wes

ema cs one See

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. beceuse this man had en incident with our Consul...he had an incident witkesearescnsnin

in which our Consul AZCUS, rebuked hin end ractiallyi nrew'hin out of the Consulate.

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Dorticos: and why does she hare; (senators )> (het sitet Watt EBLIEL CGS, did they

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an, Joaqu quin. and did they aske her some other guestio on about waney?
Hernandez: no, no, absolutely, it Seems. ee Dorticos: aid. they try to get a statement
: from her? Hernandez: ‘no, no, absolutely from what she told ne, they limited themselves
- “principally to yaatry to find out vat relations she. had had end her husband with
. “te is individual. Dorticos: and tney spoke of money? ‘Hernandez: ‘no, no, she has not -
- told me. anything about money,. they aia not talk to her about that, that is, she has . -
not told me that they spoke to her about that, Dorticos: irate SL a friend :

_. Something about. that. Hernandez: ech? well, I asked her if there haa been some

_ interest, if they had questioned her aaemx on other points s. it there had been something ;

else, end. she did not speak about: that. Dorticos: At any rate, question her some

“mors, “investigate more: ‘and x call me ‘here. | Hernandez: Good, Presidente, Twill call’ ue

“you immediately.”

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By COMER CLARK

“Yes, I heard of Lee Harvey Oswald’s plan to kill President Kennedy. It's

possible that I could have saved him.

“T might have been ‘able to — but I didn’t, I never believed the plan would:

be put into effect,”

These were the dramatic words spoken to me by Cuba’s Prime Minister Fidel

Castro in Havana on July 15.
_ “Lee Oswald came to the Cuban embassy
went on. “The first time — I was told — he
“He was asked to, explain, but he
wouldn't. :
“He wouldn't go into details.
“The second time he said he wanted
to ‘free ‘Cuba from American imperial-
ism.

“Then he said something like: ‘Some-
oi aught to shoot that President Ken-
nedy.’ ;

“Then Oswald said — and this was
exactly how it was reported to me —.
‘Maybe I'll try to do it.’

“This was less than 2 months before the
U.S. President was assassinated.

“The two visits occurred close together,”
Prime Minister Castro told me. “I didn't take
them seriously.” _ .

My hard-won interview took place in the
middle of a cheering, jostling mob on the
sidewalk of La Rampa, the main pshow
street” of Cuba's capital, Havana.  *

Castro had arrived unexpectedly to in-
Spect progress on the building of a Cuban
pavilion, erected with those of other Com:
munist countries to mark the July 26 cele- |
bration of Castro’s rebellion against the Ba-
tista regime. ; :

And also to mark ‘the meeting in Havana
of Castro's rebel Organization of Latin Amer-
ican Solidarity (OLAS) confer- ~
ence, due to open on July 31.

I had applied to the Cuban em- ©
. bassy in London during April- :
May for permission to go to Cuba
to interview the island's prime |
minister. :
Although a British subject does
not need a visa to enter Cuba, }
approval by the Cubans for the .
entr necessary. #
Otu..wise, the incoming visi-
tor risks being turned away at :
Havana airport. The approval ;
came at the end of June and °

wanted to work for us.

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SRE UHRA

Although millions; of words
have been written’ claiming
that Fidel Castro was behind
the Kennedy assassination, no
newsman has been able to sé-
cure a personal interview with
the Cuban prime minister for
his views on the slaying of the .
U.S. President. :

To shed more light on the most
dramatic event of ‘the 20th
‘Century, The ENQUIRER sent
Comer Clark to Havana for
a face-to-face meeting with
Castro. — |

And here, for readers of The
ENQUIRER, is the iexclusive
story of the dramatic interview
with Castro. -

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ago Diaz, of the Cuban consulate in London,
who deals with entry inquiries. Diaz told me
that permission to visit Cuba had been “cleared”
(though I was unable to learn what specific
oo ‘s checks on my eligibility had been
made). '

There are only ‘three legal’ ways

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2 City, from Prague, Czechoslovakia,
: or from Madrid, Spain. So I flew to
Madrid and entered’ Cuba by ‘air-
liner on July 9.» 1
*, In Havana, I immediately applied
; to the Ministry of External Rela-
ions for an appointment to see
Prime Minister Castro. -
In London, I'd been assured an
interview would act be too difficult
to obtain. But Senor Laurencio Cor-
dose, who dealt with-foreign press
queries was not quite as optimistic
as that. i :
“You know, there are the annual

in Mexico City twice,” Castro

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to enter Cuba by air, From Mexico!

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was telephoned to me by Santi- aati Dwg | ‘
NATIONAL] REPORTER: Comer Clork’s celebrations of the tising against
Page 4 : ENQUIRER | questions netted mew facts. Batista,” he said.! “And then the
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PRIME MINISTER of Cuba, Fidel Castro, was
addressing admiring crowd when ENQUIRER

- reporter drew surprising statements from him
in unexpected rapid-fire interview.

meeting of the Organization of Latin American Soli-
darity. : .
“The Prime Minister is bound to be very busy. :
You will have to be patient.” |
While waiting for permission‘ to interview the
prime minister, I was taken on official visits te
Cienfuegos Bay to watch the construction of 3
Massive sugar processing and storage plant. And
then I went to Trinidad, one of the oldest towns
in Cuba. . :
I noticed that.the windows of many Trinidad
shops were barren of goods.
For example, in the former Woolworth store on
the main street, the entire window facing the street .
was empty. : .
The only things that filled many otherwise empty
windows were pictures and photographs of Fidel
Castro and propaganda posters. Many shops are i
simply shut, because of a shortage of consumer, :
‘foods. . :
a Soviet help in construction schemes was obvious
— particularly at Cienfuegos Bay. Sorne old Ameri: » :
can machines were still in use, but much of the
new construction equipment was either Russian or
Japanese,
inspection ‘tours, however, weren’t what I had
come for, I kept asking abqut the Castro interview
— and kept being told I'd have to be patient. .
Many early-bird delegates to the OLAS confer: 4. Y
ence started to arrive now. Waiters, public servants
and others began pinning en OLAS buttons. With ail
this activity, T began to feel my waiting and hoping
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< ei spurning protocol. :
seshed into the cheering crowd as
1 Poy his familiar “fatigue” uniform of
“#* een and a sweat-cap, acknowledged
v4 firs_and looked admiringly at the
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$ og azcund flamboyantly and, raising his :)
: vey called to me in a friendly way: :
I atere do you come from, senor? Don't you :
} goa we're having:a great celebration?” :
5 [cated out that [ was a British news-
sxerman and had been trying to get an ap-
ve cent to see him, Again, 1 waved my
bess card. .
“at's wrong with right now?" he asked >
s good humor and plainly happy to -
w g on a show for the crowd. ro

‘fume Minister,” I said, .“it's been sug-. HIT CUBA HARD: President John F. Kennedy is

several times that there was some shown in November 1962 as he told newsmen that

involvement or link with the assas- iah - f Cuba. -
‘dof American President Kennedy. Russia had agreed. to remove weapons from Cu

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the American CIA — whether anything eventually
o looked straight at me, thought for a few| happened or not.”. :

"4s and then made, the dramatic statement,| Cries from the crowd began to divert Castro's
tutat at the start of " : attention from me. I desperately asked if by “any-

{ t4 xticle, that he'd & thing happened” he meant an assassination of Pres-
i ist reports of Lee Os- ; ident Kennedy. ‘
p overs visits to Cuba's ¢: “Well, it crossed my mind. But I didn’t give
; Yu. City embassy } much thought to it,” he said. ;
x: tadn't believed the - “Then, too; after such a plot had been found out,
“eat serious. we would be blamed — for something. we had noth-
; _ic® did you form ing to do with.
"ptt new?" T asked. # “It could have been used as an excuse-for an-
eG RTO replied: “Well, other invasion try. In any case, people would have
. t ‘ee sere two calls in tried to put it at my door.”
. ¢ Siveeks. [later learn- Castro started to make his way to the edge of the
‘ ¢ "4 stayed at the em- sidewalk. — ‘
L* be? about 15 minutes. - As he did g0, he added: “I was not responsible
=" tme, He gave the tor Kennedy’s death. I will tell you that.
4" Lee Oswald each s  “] think he was killed by U.S. Fascists — right
ut : a wing elements who-disagreed with him.”
"72 calls were re- Then he started speaking again in Spanish with
“ ai ‘o Havana, asa ™ those immediately around him, turned and said
“r of course, un- goodbye to the crowd, clim| inte his car an
~ % te authority of our NOW LINKED TO CUBA Oe en away. :
“st &  S-assador in Mexico, Senor Joaquim Hernandez.”| It had been an unexpected and shocking
te yp tiked: “Did the ambassador himself see Os- rag’, epeesesetere aca OTR EIE DE EE LTE EET
tee : id: .
ow iro replied: ‘No, he was seen by an aide. 3)
“an aide’? . . =
- _,’Fent on: “Let me be clear. I just didn’t be- ee :
v Ltat he (Oswald) meant this. I thought that he *
- w. cave been some sort of wild man. Or maybe %&
. " fcer money.
, 1,.¢ Seemed that to kill the head of a state
- “pid. Just pointless. As far as Cuba was con-
te e. 4. the policy of the American government
“4 80 on, anyway." :

J! ‘ked Castro, frankly: “Did you have any
“1 of warning the American government ¢
Oswald?” :
To replied. spreading his hands: “We don’t —

5 y.,vit't — have any relations with the American
oe ‘ 4 ment, anyway.

» old taken it seriously, I might have informed =

+o ted Nations or some other official agency -
ae .. . it. But who would have believed me? People :
oa nate said Oswald was just mad. Or that I'd
. > mad.” ; _ .
: ! t,.clddenly asked: “What is yout name, any
ve % Utoid him. .
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of the assassination threat but gave vague rea-
sons for not reporting it to the United Nations.

@ view under odd and difficult circumstances. If he

could be taken at his word, Castro had shed new

: light on the Kennedy assassination mystery. I hoped

to learn even more at the formal interview, which
was still pending. .

On July. 17 I was telephoned at my hotel by Seno}
Cordoso, who had tried to arrange the formal in-
terview. :

Cordoso said: “I am glad you had the ‘chance

of meeting the Prime Minister. You were very
fortunate.” : po

I agreed and asked when my longer interview

d you-tell me if there is any truth at all/ “I thought the'visits might be something to do with would be granted.

But Cordoso explained he'd been told by the
Prime Minister's office that Castro would be heavily
engaged with the anniversary celebrations and meet-
ings with OLAS visitors.

“He has a lot of pressing engagements — those
and other things," Cordoso said. “I can’t see any
chance of another personal jnterview at all in the
near future." . :

This was the final decision, and I decided to make
arrangements to leave Cuba. I flew to Mexico City,
where I called at the high-walled Cuban embassy
to see if 1 could learn more about Oswald's two
visits there. .

The grilled double gates were opened by a gate-
keeper to allow in some official-looking diplomatic
car. :

asked if I could see anyone of authority inside the
embassy. . oO

But the gatekeeper replied in halting English:
“No, no Press. It is impossible.”

The wall of silence had been lowered on the
Oswald ‘situation, except for that one revealing
moment with Castro himself on the sidewalk tn

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by Oswald before assassination.

I quickly showed him my Press credentials, and -

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MEMORANDUM

TO: Jim Johns sx fpwut Wallach.

FROM: Dan Dwyer _— 3

DATE : January 21, 1976

SUBJ: . ~— CTA Briefing with Raymond: Rocca Regarding Oswald:

_ ‘Early in our investigation of CIA's handling of the Oswald case,
Raymond Rocca briefed Wallach, Dwyer and Greissing on November 11 and
13, 1975. Some of Rocco's '¢omments merit consideration in light of
our present knowledge of the case.

af

oi. Opening of 201

Rocca explained that - Oswald’ s 201 was opened by Betty Egerter::

from a list of American defectors 1958-1960 from the State Department.
2. Status of 201, 11/22/63

Rocca explained that. on November 22, °1963 all documents in the
~~~ Oswald 201 were originated by other agencies ; Mexico City cable
“Pattie was not included in; the 201 because it was’routed through
a ‘compartmentalized channel: and, therefore would not be circulated

via~the 201. i
3. Oswald's Defection col USSR

With regard to Oswald's defection to the Soviet Union, Rocca
said Oswald would have been,of interest to the military and the FBI
and that CIA was only interested in the "information" aspect of the
case. Rocca could not cite’ any, example of a U.S. citizen defecting
on behalf of any interest. of the U.S. government,

With regard to the "Hoover" memorandum of June 3, 1960 raising
the possibility that an imposter could be using Oswald's birth certifi-
cate, Rocca believed Hoover: would not have generated it. Rocca sug~
gested someone at the Bureau who was familiar with Soviet technique
of using birth certificates for illegals -- Larry McWilliams, Brannigan

or Cregar --- would have authored the memo. (Rocca could never establish .
if, in fact, Oswald took his birth certificate with him to the Soviet
Union. ) Rocca commented that the Bureau memo, sent to State and ONI,
should have been forwarded to CIA by State, ‘but never was.

In Rocca's determination, Oswald was -the only American defector
who was allowed to stay in Russia following a suicide attempt. Rocca
said that Oswald would have. been subjected to. one or two assessments

by the KGB. .

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Rocea referred to an SB study, direéted by Lee Wigren and con-
ducted by Virginia Valpi which compared the Oswald case to other U.S.
defectors and their wives. ‘SB concluded.Oswald was not given special
handling by the KGB. Rocca ‘maintains Oswald was given special treat-
ment. He believes Oswald's relationship with the "Red Cross" (from
which Oswald received finandial assistance) and the Red Cross' relation-
ship with the KGB should be. ‘clarified.

Rocca also finds it peculiar that Marina married Oswald since
Marina's uncle was KGB. Rocca said that Oswald was the only defector
who married someone with a KGB connection of that kind. Rocca said that
the CIA developed this information after the assassination.

Rocca described Minsk as "not an unsensitive section" of Russia
and added that Oswald was the only American defector in Minsk, a white
Russian area. ,

Rocca commented on Oswald' $ surprise visit to the American Em-
bassy in Moscow by saying that ' ‘people don't do that kind of. thing
in Russia 3"

Rocca believes Oswald's Soviet diary is bona fide .. “Rocca ad-
mitted that although there are perceptible changes in the quality
'of Oswald's written material, Oswalds' mentality seemed conducive -
to periods of attention to thoroughness and detail.

4. Alleged Debriefing of Oswald

Rocca did not have any knowledge of an alleged debriefing of
Oswald in New York City by the DCD. Rocca said that if a debriefing
report existed, it would have been distributed in OO series (overt
operations) of the DDI (now DDO). Rocca also noted that a debriefing
report would not have been filed in the Oswald 201. Rocca noted that
a Dr. Froyn (phonetic) supervised DDI records. Rocca also said that:
Traveler's Aid was a legitimate charitable organization which had | no
ties with the CIA.

5. Oswald and Mexico City -

; Rocea said that Chief, WH could clarify aspects of technical .
operations on Cuban and Soviet Embassies. Rocca said that David
Phillips organized the technical surveillance.

Although the Cuban Embassy was officially closed on September
28, Rocca found nothing unusual about Oswald's visit there and meeting
Silvi ‘Duran, Cuban consulate employee.

Rocca: emphasized that ‘Oswald’ s activities in Mexico City were
the responsibility of the FBI.

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6. 7 Possible Oswald- Cuban! Connections

‘Rocea described document gaps in the materials that the Russian
and Cuban governments forwarded to the WC via ayP tomatic channels.
He described these areas as “open and relevant."

Rocca drew attention to Oswald's Marine duty in California in
1958. Basing most of his analysis on testimony of DelGado, Oswald's
sergeant in California, Rocca maintained that Oswald had made contact

' with the Cubans at the Cuban Embassy in Los Angeles. Rocca said that

DelGado had to release Oswald.from guard duty because someone from Los
Angeles reinitiated contact while Oswald was on duty.

Rocea placed specific. emphasis on Castro's"impromptu 'comments
to Harker at the Brazilian Embassy in Havana jon September 7, 1963.
Rocca viewed Castro's comments as a "message"' to American leaders
and said it was a "very important signpost, "Rocca added that the.
Mexico City Station brought:.Castro's comments to Headquarter's atten-.
tion on 11/25/63. Rocca also viewed Castro's comments in terms of
Oswald's possible perception of them, since New Orleans Times Picayune
ran the Harker atticle on September 9, 1963. (This is the Tine Slawson
adopted: could Oswald have" read the piece?)

‘In regard to the Castro comments (unfortunately my notes are
sketchy here) Rocca refers to a 10/24/63 cable, memo,.or letter from
"Des . to Paris."’ He then refers to an 11/5/63 memo for the record and
said "man never heard from again. Rocea should be: asked to clarify
these references. -

Rocca briefly outlined Cuban-Russian relations in the early 1960s.
he described 1961 as the "seed time'’ between Cuba and the USSR. Rocca
said that following the missile crisis, the KGB and DGI began a "pre-
liminary relationship." Rocca mentioned Srotoff (phonetic) and
Alexiev (sic) as being KGB principals involved. Rocca said that when
Castro visited Moscow in June-July 1963, Alexiev and Leonoff served
as liaison between Kruschev and Castro. Rocca referred to an escalation
of Alpha-66 activity (sporadic: revolutionary attacks on Cuban ports ,
vessels, etc.) in July-August 1963. Rocea places Castro's “warning”
of September 7, 1963 in the context of these activities.

Rocca said that Oswald’: s activities for the FPCC in New Orleans

‘were apparently self-motivated. Rocca added, however, that V. T. Lee,

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national chairman of the FPCC, visited Cuba in 1964. Rocca noted that

‘(fnu) Hernandez handled Lee's case and that Hernandez’ office was next

to Azcue's, who, according to Duran, argued with Oswald at the Cuban
Embassy in "Mexico City. According: to Rocca, Hernandez was mentioned
in penetration reports from Guatemala where Hernandez was running two
DGL agents. Rocca outlined these relationships briefly to demonstrate

DGI-FPCC connections. Rocca concluded that the Warren Commission should

have paid more attention to; ‘the DGI. Rocca also mentioned that the
CIA picked up a DGI defector named Mugg in April or May of 1964, who
was handled by WH Division.

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7. Oswald, New Orleans, Garrison Case

Rocea said that the cL/R and A stayed on top of the Garrison case
and "summarized overt developments." Rocca identified the analyst
for the Garrison material as Donald Pratt. Rocca said that by NSA
intercepts and associated relationships, the CIA believed Garrison
was operating (unwittingly) under KGB manipulation. (Rocca briefly
deseribed Soviet technique. of misinformation. He recalled an inter-
view that Drew Pearson had with Kruschev in Cairo in 1964 or 1965.
Kruschev told Pearson that his "gut feeling" was that American right-

- wing extremists and capitalists were responsible for theP resident's
assassination. Rocca said this typified KGB disinformation.)

Rocca characterized Oreste Pena's allegations as "absolute
fabrication." Rocca said CIA files revealed that Clay Shaw was a
contact of the DCD until 1956. . _

Rocca said that he was never informed in 1962. or 1963 about
a revolutionary training camp around Lake Pontchartrain. He believes
that the GIA did not know of its existence. Rocca said there is evi-
dence that messages from the Lake Pontchartrain camp were going toa .
drop in Mexico City. ,

8, GPFLOOR Period

- GPFLOOR was the crypt used to describe the investigation con-.
ducted by CIA following the President's assassination (11/23-1/12-15/63.)
The Mexico City aspect of GPFLOOR was controlled by WH: J. C. King,
Chief; Jack Whiten, Desk Chief, and Win Scott, COS, Mexico City. Rocca
said that Whiten would report Mexico City developments to Helms who -
would then inform McCone.

9. . End of.GPFLOOR: ‘Warren Commission —

With the formation of the Warren Commission, the GPFLOOR period .
ended. Rocca explained that Helms served as the major liaison between
the CIA and WC. Rocca served as chief of research for matters of in-
terest to the WC -- mostly concerning Oswald's defection to Russia. |
Rocea's staff included: Thomas Hall, Arthur Dooley and Paul Hartman.
“Hall conducted research on Soviet service in DDO. Dooley followed all
Bureau developments forwarded to CIA. Hartman was responsible for ex- |
ploration of overt references and Soviet service." Additionally, Hartman
researched DeMohrenschildt's relationship to. the Oswalds. os

_ Rocea reported his research staff's findings to Angleton; Rocca
had no contact with Helms. ‘Rocca explained that he had some liaison
with Slawson of the WC staff. Rocca said that any negotiation between
the CIA and WC was conducted by Helms, Dulles, and Rankin. Rocca said
he had no knowledge of any CIA assassination attempts against Castro.

oe Rocca emphasized that the FBI was the investigative arm for the
Warren Commission. Rocca said that Sam Papich, Dick O'Niell (sic) and
Jim Hunt were the Bureau personnel involved with the WC.

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David Murphy and Bagley, Chief and Deputy: Chief of CI/SB. Rocca
said that Lee Wigren and Virginia Valpi were also involved in
Soviet R&A. |

10. Rockefeller Commission Inquiry

Rocea served as CIA liaison to the Rockefeller Commission
in regard to Warren Commission allegations. Belin and Robert Olsen
were involved in the investigation. Belin wanted Rocca to review
documentation regarding the'photo of the unidentified individual
in Mexico City. Belin told: Rocca that the Warren Commission was not
“clued in on Cuban emigreeissues and Operation MONGOOSE. Rocca de-
veloped the impression that the Rockefeller.Commission was looking
into CIA's operations aimed'at Castro. Belin asked Rocca for the ©
Castro comments of September 7, 1963. Belin was not aware of the
statements during the Warren Commission. (Slawson, however, was but
only at the conclusion of the WC.)-

Rocca also said that Belin is writing another book on Oswald
and the President’ s assassination.

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Honorable Frank Church, Chairman
United States Senate Select Committee

on Intelligence Activities
Washington, D.C. 20510

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Dear Senator Church:

Transmitted herewith is a memorandum prepared
by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in response
to the request.in Item 15 of a letter dated January -14,
1976, from Mr. Paul Wallach of your Committee's staff.

“LAE |

‘| Nd E. SHAHEEN, JR.
Special Counsel for Intelligence Coordination

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OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

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62-116395

‘February 19, 1976

U. S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE TO
STUDY GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS WITH
RESPECT TO,.INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC) |

Reference is made to SSC letter dated January 14,
1976, requesting access to various materials contained in FBI
files. fe
Item 15 of referenced letter requested access to
materials pertaining to FBI contacts or interviews of .
Loran Eugene Hall from January, 1963, through December, 1975.
Material responsive to Item 15 has been assembled and is
available for review) by SSC Staff members in Room 4171,
J. Edgar Hoover Building.

SSC Staff member Paul Wallach advised on
February 10,1976, that the portion of referenced request
concerning Item 14 is withdrawn. ;

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that -- Chase, I think his name was, ‘Peter Chase, one of his
assistants -- is the person to be in touch with, and to keep
him apprised of all developments.
I later again gota word from Jean Daniel;- the’ French *:

correspondent who had come back: from Havanna saying Cuba seemed

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ripe for a conversation. So this also came from anothar source,
a Greek town planner named ‘Doxiati; ,, who said that Castro was
very much interested in some. kind of normalization relation,

but that Che Guevera and Raul. were opposed.
4
October 21st, I got a call again’ from Bandy! s office asking
me what was new. I said, well the ball is now, in the Cuban's

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court. : oe

On the 28th, I saw Lochuga again’ at the UN who said that

Havanna didn't see exactly how a talk, would be useful now, but

he would be glad to maintain continuous contact with me anyway.

The 4th of November I brisfed Stevenson on these develop~.
ments and meanwhile, Miss Howard had been on the phone with
Rene Valao who was Fidel Castro's aide at that point, and who

was one of the so-called pro-Anericans in the group and who

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1 Perhaps wiping out ‘the Bay of Pigs and maybe getting back into

2 normal.

3 . Chase then said, Bundy wanted a. chronological memo about
4 || the entire thing. I might say I have forgotten one point. When
§ I first told Adlai Stevenson about this demarche -or approach
6 || by the Cubans he said he liked it, but, and I quote, he said

7 || the CIA, unfortunately, is still in charge of Cuba. But he

8 | said -~- he still offsred to take it up with the White House. .
9 Anyway, we're now on November 12th, and I went to Miss
10 || Howard's apartment where she said he had set up a phone call to
11 Havanna with Valao. Wa never could get through -.: the bad
12 | Connections, but she had spoken to him before I arrived and
he had suggested that 1 come to Marianao from Key West and

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14 || talk directly with Fidel Castro, because they wanted to avoid

15 | going, through Havanna.

Bundy called me the same day to say that the White House

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| 18 Cuba and told me to tell Valao this. tr finally reached Valao
. 19 on the telephone on November the 14th and delivered a message
| 20 about his. coming here. He said -- and that we wanted to discuss
21 agenda. .
22 He said he would send instructions to LaChuga and that he
23 || would -- or rather Castro, through him, to LaChuga, that they
should discuss an agenda with me. He was very cordial on the

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we referred to our talk in '59.and he said another talk might

be possible and useful. at this time, and that was the first real
indication. At this point, I said r'm no longer a private
citizen but a government official and we agreed that the
current situation was different, at the same time, things were
a bit abnormal and he said the Cubans were very much annoyed at

the exile rate, the CIA rate on Cuba, as well as the freezing

of their assets.

The next step was my visit to Washington on September 24th

when I came down to see Robert Kennedy who was then Attorney

General. His position was -~ I showed him the mamoranda, which

be rather risky; said ‘it was bound to leak and said it might

result in some kind of Congressional investigation or something.

Anyway, it might be a problem. But he did think the matter was

worth pursuing through UN. channels, and he would be talking to:

Averell Harriman and Bundy about it.
At that point, LaChuga said he would be making a very

violently anti-American speech on November 7th and not to worry

too much about it, so Stevenson asked me to help prepare a speée h

in raply. On the 27th of Saptember, I saw Lochuga again, told
I could not aecept any invitation to come to Cuba, but I would
‘be glad to keep in touch with him and he could talk with

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2 || way, my call to valao; fas the 18th -- he said that after their
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3 agenda had been receive , the President wanted to see me at the

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4 White House and decide jwhat to say and whether to go or what

5 we should do next. That was the 19th of November, three days

6 | before the assassination. |

7] ‘On the 29th of November, LaChuga had seen’ Miss Howard

8 || and he wondered where things stood now. I passed the word to

9 him that I didn't know, but that until we were told differently
10 || that we would continue our conversation.

1 On the 2nd of December he confirmed. getting a letter from
12 Valao and he wanted to know if «things nad changed aqain. He

13 said he was authorized to talk to me in general terms,

14 I called the White. tlouse, Chase in this case, to say that
6 the ball was now in our court.
16 On December 4th, LaChuga again looked me up at the UN,’
17) said he now had a letter directly from Castro approving the
18 detailed talks and an agenda. Again, I informed Chase.
19 He said the decision would take some time now hecause all
20 || our policies were under review.
. 21 This went on. tr kept seeing LaChuga and LaChuga would say
| 22 he was waiting for an answer, and I kapt saying well -the door
23 isn't closed, I just don't know. |
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1 Stevenson's apartment| and told me that he had read my Cuban
' 2 || memo recapitulating the events or the discussions in the fall
3 || with interest and that was that. And I then was in Washington.
4 Averell Harriman asked me about the Cuban - ‘Project. I said I
5 | didn't know, that it was lying down in Chase's office in the
6 || White House and that he told me he'd get back to me after the
7 || holidays. |
8 Well, that ended my diary in '63. I then went to Kenya
g | as Ambassador in February of ‘64. Howaver I do recall that
10 || some time in January t again called Chase and I said, well, if
11 this thing is going to be continued I would suggest either
12 || John Case or someone on that mission. He said, well, it doesn't
13 || took as though it's: going to he continued now because it's an
14 election year, or whatever the reason WaSe and anyway we'll keep
1 it in mind but that it was a dead issue.
16 | The interesting thing, I think in terms of your investiga~_
et tion is that whatever was going on in terms of assassination
18 plots, certainly there seemed to be two tracks, because it seems
19 hard for me to believe that the Executive would be approving thi
20 type of negotiation while other covert operations were happening}
21 although it could conceivably have happened.
p The Chairman. If it did happen, what we are in search of
, 93 ‘is an explanation.
| 24 I think your testimony is helpful. Certain inferences
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Dear Senator Church:’

Transmitted herewith is a memorandum prepared
by the Federal Bureau of Investigation with an attach-
ment which is responsive to a letter dated February 12,
1976, from Mr. Paul Wallach of your Committee's staff.

Sincerely, :
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U. S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE TO STUDY
GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS. WITH RESPECT
TO INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC) _

Reference is made to SSC letter dated February 12,
1976, which requests delivery of Mr. Hoover's memorandum
dated November 29, 1963, which memorandum is contained in
the "Official and Confidential Files" (O & C) and which was
made available for access on February 12, 1976, to an SSC
Staff Member. _

; A copy of Mr. Hoover's memorandum dated November 29,
1963, is attached in compliance with the above request. One
excision has been made by reason of privacy.

Instant memorandum also serves to confirm a conversation
on February 20, 1976, between Mr, Paul Wallach, SSC Staff Counsel,
and Mr. Steven Blackhurst, Assistant Special Counsel for :
Intelligence Coordination, Department of Justice, a pertinent
portion of which conversation was’ relayed by Mr. Blackhurst
to Special Agent Thomas J. McNiff. Mr. Blackhurst reported
that during the above conversation Mr. Wallach gave assurances
that should the SSC decide to use the attached memorandum or
any portions thereof, the material used'will not be identified
as having been maintained in Mr. Hoover's 0 & C files.

. In addition to the above, referenced SSC letter of -
February 12, 1976, also requested delivery of all material in

the 0 & C files pertaining to a number of specifically identified
items: relating to the Warren Commission and to this Bureau's
investigations of both the Oswald matter and the assassination

of President Kennedy. A‘thorough review of the special indices
relating to material contained in the 0 & C files failed to
indicate that any documents contained in these 0 & C files,

other than. the attached memorandum, would.-be responsive to the

items listed in referenced SSC letter of February 12, 1976.

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From: Mason Cargill

Subject: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT DOCUMENTS RELATING
TO PLOTS TO ASSASSINATE CASTRO

On May 20, 1975, I reviewed one file of documents
in the office of the Assistant Attorney General/Criminal
Division. The file was about one-half inch thick, was marked
°"#82-46-5 - TOP SECRET." It contained documents relating to
the October 31, 1960, wiretapping incident in Las Vegas.

“The documents in this file indicated the following
items of interest:

“1. The IRS investigated Rosselli from December 1, 1962, to
March 1, 1963. ;

2. IRS report attached to March 19, 1963, memo to Herbert J.
Miller, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division,
‘indicates Maheu told FBI that Rowan tap had been placed
to determine whether McGuire had leaked any classified
information she had obtained from Giancana.

3. Letter from Miller (Assistant Attorney General) to U.S.
Attorney in Las Vegas of January 17, 1963, instructed
that prosecution of Balletti should be dropped.

4. Memo for the Record, dated May 14, 1962, Subject: Arthur
James Balletti et al ~ Unauthorized Publication or Use of
Communications, by Sheffield Edwards of CIA ~ The file
contained original - of this memo outlining the full briefing
which had been given Robert F. Kennedy on May 7, 1962.

(We have a copy of this from CIA.)

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Memo to Attorney General, from Herbert J. Miller, of

Case ~ Sam Giancana - This memo recommends prosecution in
this case would be against national interest. It contains
no mention of assassination.

The file contained several memos to and from FBI Director
and Miller of January, February, and March, 1962, re
Las Vegas case. They did not mention assassination.

Other Department of Justice documents of December 1961,
relating to possible prosecution were filed. They basically

FBI reports on Las Vegas incident, dated September 12,
1961, August 18, 1961, and July 28, 1961. The last one
indicated Maheu installed bug to determine whether
Giancana had leaked classified information to McGuire.

There follow several FBI reports on interview during 1961
of participants in the Las Vegas incident.

Memo from Director of FBI to Attorney General, of May 22,
1961, transmits the memo dated May 22, 1961, of an inter-

view with Shef Edwards of May 3, 1961. [We have copy of
the memo on this interview, dated May 22, 1961, Subject:
"Arthur James Balletti, et al."] ;

FBI report (April 20, 1961) of interview with Maheu.
It indicates Maheu said he ordered bug to determine if
Giancana or McGuire were leaking information.

There follow Many FBI documents in 1961 on investigation
of details of preparation, etc., for Las Vegas affair.

Memo, dated November 22, 1960, to Assistant Attorney
General (Criminal Division), from Director of FBI,

Subject: Arthur James Balletti, Unauthorized Publication
or Use of Communications transmitted a report of an FBI
agent at Salt Lake City dated November 10, 1960. The
agent's report stated that Balletti was arrested on
October 31, 1960, at the Riviera Hotel, Las Vegas. This

(This document is the last entry in this Criminal Division
file on the Las Vegas Incident.)

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did not implicate CIA initially but instead said he had
been asked by a Los Angeles attorney to arrange investi-
gative work in Las Vegas. Maheu declined to name the

. attorney.

Maheu first mentioned CIA connection in an FBI interview
on April 18, 1961 [after the Bay of Pigs] (detailed in an
agent report of April 20, 1961, transmitted by a memo to
Assistant Attorney General on April 25, 1961). He said
he was working with CIA and the Las Vegas bug was ordered
to determine if Sam Giancana was leaking information.
(Maheu did not tell FBI about nature of activities he
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It was a weird gangland spy
case in which, government of-
ficials said, CIA agents con-
tacted Giancana in an effort to
obtain Cuban intelligence after
the Fidel Castro regime came
into power in 1959,

What the CIA accomplished
if anything—by negotiating
with the 33-year-old Chicago
rackels chicf is one of many
unexplained. mysteries of the
matter,

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By Sandy Smith

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Sun-Times Correspondent

WASHINGTON—A fantastic tale of attempted Cuban espionage involving
Chicago gang boss Momo Salvatore (Moe) Giancana and the Central Intelli-
gence Agency was revealed Thursday to The Sun-Times.

EXCLUSIV

1959 and carly 1960, Giancana,
a big shot on gangland’s “Com-
mission” and in its La Cosa
Nostra murder-and-terror so-
ciety, became what his fellow
gangsters abhor and would act
swiffly fo exterminate an
agent for the U.S. government.
The CIA wasn’t talking about
the case here on Thursday.
But Justice Department
sources expressed belief that

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“Fhe crucial vote in the hair.
breadth decision was under-
stood to have been cast by Rep.
Martha W. Griffiths (D-Mich.),
who was absent when the com-

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Chicago led directly to the ex-

oo . . ._| posure of the La Cosa Nostra
Giancana never did any spying (“our cause") brotherhood and
at all for the CIA.: the Commission.

Giancana, according to these} With his connections in
sources, merely pretended to} Cuba, Giancana declared he
go along with the CIA in the; would be able to sneak intel.
hope that the Justice Depart- igence out of the island for
ment's drive to put him behind| the CIA, *
bars might be slowed—or ath A high government source
least affected —hy his ruse of gave The Sun-Times -this ac-
co-operation with anuther gov-| count of how Giancana stepped
ernmical agency, into the role of a government

Tf this was Giancana’s mo- agent: . .
tive. his scheme was a failure. | The CIA made its first con-
For a probe by the Justice De-! tact with Giancana in 1959,
partment anc Federal bur. |, The Chicago gang boss then

was embittered because the
Commission, in traditional gang
bipartisanship, had — dollars
backing both sides in” the
Cuban revolt; :
The Commission was said to
have given financial backing to
Castro—only to have him shut
down the gambling casinos.
And the former Cuban dic-
lator, Fulgencio Batista, re
portedly fled Cuba with mil-
lions he received from Com-
mission hoodlums. ;
In his dickering with the
CIA, Giancana reputedly boast-
ed that he had contac’ with

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anti-Castro factions and was
ready to use his contacts for
the CIA,

Justice Department: officials
Say now that Giancana was just
Guking. He might have’ had
. some “contacts,” but he never
produced anything of value for
the CIA, the officials said,

‘The CIA was said to have
dumped Giancana as a possible
source of Cuban intelligence
some time in 1960, long before

Sign First Trade Pact
DAR ES SALAAM, Tangan-
yika (AP) — Tanganyika and
the Soviet Union have signed
their first trade agreement, The
African nation will exchange
sisal, cotton, hides, skins, to-
bacco. and coffee for Sovict
metal, tools, vehicles, road
equipment, cameras, fishing
boats, planes and other things,

Tay-Feat

10S ANGELES (UPI) — A
woman Gitred and feathered
and apparently left to die in a
flaming house told a bizarre
Story Thursday that her “tor-
ture” actually was part of
to stir up a racial inci-

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the abortive rebel invasion at
the Bay of Pigs in April, 1961.

An equally bizarre episode
months Jater gave the Justice
Department its first clue to
Giancana's negotiations with
the CIA,

The figures in this incident
were a male night-club enter-
tainer and = Giancana's girl
friend, Phyllis McGuire, one of
the singmg McGuire sisters,

At the time, in Giancana’s
opinion, the entertainer was
overly attentive to Miss Me-
Guire. _

At Las Vegas, Nev., in 1961,
sheriff's police seized a prowler
in the entertainer’s hotel suite.
For hours, the intruder refused
io identify himself or say he
was rifling the  entertainer's
rooms, »

Persistent questioning by
sheriff's deputies, according to
federal authorities, led to an
admission by the prowler that

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vate detective agency in Flor-
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Florida authorities sought. an
explanation of the incident
from the operator of the detec-
live agency. At first, the oper-
ator refused to discuss -the
matter, Finally, 1 however, he

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HUE, South Viet Nam (AP)
—A 71-year-old Buddhist monk
burned himself to death in his
ceremonial robes inside Huc's
biggest pagoda carly Friday.

He was the fifth to burn to
death in the mounting Buddhist
campaign . against the South
Victnamese government of

President Ngo Dinh Diem, a
Roman Catholic.
His seli-immolation in the

owner af the house which was
set afire, Henry Lewis, allempt-
ed to inspire a racial incident
that would pressure his neigh-
bors in a right-of-way dispute.

Office waid: Mrs, Harwell
the cewises were arrested

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told investigators to get

in
touch with the CIA, ;
The inquiry then shifted

from Florida to Washington
and revealed Giancana’s nego
liations With CIA, it was. dis-
closed.

Government sources reported
Thursday that the private in-

Hth Buddhist Burns Self |

courlyard of the Tu Dam pa-
goda brought immediate mar-
jal law to Hue, which lies 40

‘miles north of Saigon and is

the ancient capital of Viet Nam.

He was. the third to burn this
week. A 17-year-old novice
monk committed suicide Tucs-
day and a middle-age nun took
her life in Ninh Hoa Thursday.

Reliable informants said
the nun, Dieu Hien, set fire

Oak

Mrs. Smith, a baby-sitter, ad-

mitted setting fire to the house,

uthorilies said. She and the

Lewis couple faced charges of

son and conspiracy, detectives

Vegas suile of :
was another riddle of Giancae
na's caper with the CfA, Neith-
er the CIA nor the Florida
detective agency ever has of-|
fered an explanation of w
the investigator was doing
the hotel suite, the sources Saic

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to herself in the market place |
of Ninh Hoa, a coastal vil
use 200 miles northeast of
Saigon. She was the first won
an fire-suicide, . i.

informants at Ninh Hoa said
government authorities had tak- |
en the nun's body in a move |
aimed. at preventing a mass,
demonstration at her funeral. ;

They followed the sanic tac-’
tic with the body of a novice |
nionk who immolated himselt
early Tuesday near the central
Vietnamese religious center ol
Tue,

ft had an opposite effect,

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Binder containing excerpts frm the National Security Act of 1947; the Organization —
of USIB; Summary of NSCID's & charts & regs ou Organizaton of CIA.

Summary Reports Chiefs of Station, WH Division, presented at Conference-
Panama(29 Jan-1 Feb 1962)

White House-1962 & 1963(containes correspondence to, from and of interest to
the White House, )Also included autographed picture of the CIB wich appeared in ;
the newspaper & compromised the code words, Autographed to McCone frm McGeo Bindy.

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Memoranda of Record on DCI Trip to Europe-l2t thru 29 Sept 1964
~moranda on DCI's European trip-January 1964

Panama Conference- 29 Jan-2 Feb 1962.

Memos for the Reocrd EA/DCI for 1964 & 65.

seams pee ne nam blg ne mmc ny pes OR ep i. ee ome

DCI's 1962 Far Eastern Trip
Garibbean Survey Group (1961 and. 1962- inaiinly on Cuba) >

OCI Letters of. appreciation for hospitality extended him on his Far East ‘Trip-1962

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“CONFIDENTIAL
COMMISSION ON CIA ACTIVITIES WITHIN THE UNITED STATES

Washington, DC 20500; :
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To: File
From: Mason cargill he

Subject: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT DOCUMENTS

On the afternoon of May 20, 1975, I briefly |
examined the Justice Department files on the Kennedy assassi-
nation, ranging from February 18, 1969, to January 28, 1971.
According to Mr. Keeney and his secretary who has reviewed
these files in detail, they contain no memo from any State
Department employee who Was in Mexico in 1963. Basically these
files consist of letters from citizens, some referred from
congressmen, and press clippings relating to the assassination.

Mr. Keeney's secretary referred me to several
entries in these files respecting allegations by people who
claimed to have been involved in the Kennedy assassination.
One claimed to have been a CIA agent. There are also many
letters from assassination "nuts." Other documents relate
to court proceedings to force FBI agents to testify in the
Clay Shaw trial in Louisiana.

One document: is ‘an FBI report, dated February 2,
1972, stating that one Richard von Kleist had contacted the
“FBI claiming he had information on. the John F. Kennedy .
assassination. Kleist claimed certain people conspired in
the Hotel Luna, Mexico City, in July, 1963. Kleist was not
a State Department employee. | He appeared to be a free-lance
magazine writer. .

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geLoach to Mohr 12-6-63

> ! y eXamine his"
own house. I told him I was quite thoroughly familiar withthe way Guthman and-
-Rosenthal dealt with the press and that as he well knew the wire service people stayed
‘constantly in Guthman's private office.; I told him it was quite obvious to me how the
AP had learned that the report had been sent over to the Department.

. Katzenbach reiterated that he had no complaints against the FBI. He
stated again that the purpose of his call was to tell me about Senator Russell's feelings.

He added that he had another reason for calling and that was to determine

if we could give him any ideas as to how Warren Olney could be dropped as Chief

Counsel of*the Presidential Commission. I told Katzenbach of our feelings concerning:

‘Olney. He stated that‘ne was presently: working through Congressman Hale Boggs and
‘he thought he was going to be successful in getting Olney's name removed from
_consideration, He told me that Boggs was very sympathetic.

Katzenbach mentioned that Waggoner Carr, the Texas State Attorney
General, would like very much to see the Director on Friday, 12-6-63, I asked him

what for. He stated that Carr had no particular motive in mind other than to indicate

to the press later on that he had discussed matters with the Director. I told him I could
see no percentage in the Director's seeing Carr, that we were the investigative

‘agency and that Carr's dealings should be with the Department and the Presidential

Commission. Katzenbach indicated that the White House might think otherwise. He
stated that the President was most anxious for Carr to be given attention in Washington
inasmuch as Cayr was running for office next yeai. Itold Katzenbach I knew this,
howévér, T'still felt that the Director should not be injected into this matter, ;
Katzenbach stated he would attempt to disuadé Carr from seeing the Director, however,
‘Carr was quite persistent. ——

In view of the close friendship which Carr obviously has with the _
President, the Director may desire to just shake hands with Carr without sitting down
and discussing facts concerning our report. ; {

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SUBJECT: THSCERESTDENT!S. COMMISSION... 1) “fil ori
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While at’ the offices of the President's Commission on other
imatters, J, Lee Rankin requested Malley to stop by his office.. Mr. Rankin .°
‘advised that he desired to make it known that the Bureau had been of tremen- |)
dous help to the President's Commission, that an extrenel ‘large voluse of 7}
iwork had been produced by the Bureau. and that. the Bureau had been most
cooperative in handléng all requests which had been made by the President's .

Commission. Rf.
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- ~ He commented that recently there had been quite an increase in the vse,

number of requests and there was a possibility that there would be many more =;
additional requests. ir, Rankin stated this was not intended as a criticisa ~;
“of the Bureau's work but instead was the following through of the Commis- — . gg

'sion's desire to complete the Commission's record and leave no unanswered
,questions. — — ;

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In this. regard, Ir. Rankin went on to say that the Bureau, in. i
conducting its investigation, had an extremely difficult and enormous task «fi
to perform and that he as well as other members of the Commission staff had) “)"

been amazed at the amount of detailed information which had been developed

by the Bureau in its investigation, He commented that the Commission in
\performing its tasks was of necessity making a most ninute study of the -
(Bureau's work as well as that of other Government agencies with the idea of. .
picking the investigation to pieces to the extreme degree so that wherever “
it was possible to clarify any item, this could be handled while the.) -;
t . mat
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| Commission was in cxistence. ‘

Mr. Rankin advised that in connection with the letter which had

just recently been transmitted to the Bureau requesting an explanation con-

cerning information relative to Special Agent Janes P. Hosty's nane being ae
omitted from a report prepared in the Dallas Office (report of Special Agent: :
Robert P. Gemberling dated 12/23/63), he wanted the Bureau to know the bot

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The Commission, had noted in reviewing the notebook in question a
that Agent. Hosty's name apneared in the book along with the office telephone
number.and a License number. It had been noted that this information did
not appear in the Dallas investigative report and members of the Commission _
wondered why this item did not appear. isk, Rankin stated that. prior to_any |
question being raised concerning this iten, | the Bureau in one of its letters
to the Comission (dated 1/27/64) set. forth full information for. the.
Commission's information explaining the appearance of Agent Hosty's nane
inthe Osvald notebook, As a result of this information being furnished by:
the Bureau. the members of the Commission were fully aware that there had aa
been no.effort on the part of the Bureau not to make this information =
available, bir, Rankin stated that after some discussion concerning this
item, the members of the Coiimission directed Mir. Rankin to request the ar
Bureau for an explanation so that the record of the Commission would show
the exact circuustances by which this item was omitted from the Dallas —
report of 12/23/63 by Special Ag ent Gemberling. ; a r

ACLIGH:

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Attached isa letter to J. Lee Rankin setting forth the reasons _
why Agent fiesty's name was omitted from the Dallas report of 12/23/63, We ;
ure enclosing for the Co1mission affidavits from Special Agent Robert P,
Gemberling and John T, Kesler wherein ‘they set forth their “explanations in
handling the Hosty entry in Oswald's address book, Both affidavits are 7
excellent and shouid satisfy the Commission that our handling of the Hosty ~' -
“entry was sound,

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY ow
WaASHINGTON,D.C. 20505 ‘

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: Review Staff: 76-H412- --
13 May 1976.

Mr. William G. Miller ©. wet
Staff Director ;
Select Committee To Study Governmental

Operations With Respect To Intelligence

Activities ~
Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, D. Cc, 20510 Attention: Mr. E. Sreissing
Dear Mr. Miller:
As requested by Mr. Greissing, transmitted herewit)
is a copy of a 1 May 1967 memorandum numbered 502 and
captioned "Claimed Agency Affiliation by Conspiracy Cuse mae
Figures’. This document was recently released by the
Agency in response to a: Freedom of Information Act request.
Sincerely,
- vecuten. A .
Seyncar’® Bolten
Chief, Review Stati oe
Attachnent:
As Stated.

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“AND IT OBVIOUS PHOTOS SENT TO DALLAS WE RE NOT IDEN WITH LEE a
OSWALD HELD DALLAS, DATES ARE AS GIVEN ON PHOTOS. | |
2. M=XI STATION REVIEWING ALL AVAILABLE PHOTOS: PERSONS a
ENTERING SOVIET AND CUBAN EMBASSIES.
3, MEXI SUGGESTING TO LITEMPO 2 THAT SILVIA DURAN WHO
MEXICAN EMPLOYEE AT CUBAN EMBASSY AND WHO PUT LEE OSWALD
ON TELEPHONE FROM CUBAN: EMBASSY TO TALK TO SOVIET EMBASSY |
ON 26 SEPT BE ARRESTED IMMEDIATELY, AND HELD INCOMMUNICADO
UNTIL SHE GIVES ALL DETAILS OF OSWALD KNOWN TO HER, (Gee al £ F).
4. LITEMPO 2 CAN SAY D, F,S, COVERAGE REVEALED CALL TO
HIM IF HE NEEDS TO EXPLAIN,

Pipre. 7° END OF MSG

COORDINATING OFFICERS |

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| AUTHENTICATING OFFICER , ‘CLASSIFICATION RELEASING OFFICER

“QUTGOING

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OSWALD HELD DALLAS, DATES ARE AS GIVEN ON PHOTOS. | |
2. M=XI STATION REVIEWING ALL AVAILABLE PHOTOS: PERSONS a
ENTERING SOVIET AND CUBAN EMBASSIES.
3, MEXI SUGGESTING TO LITEMPO 2 THAT SILVIA DURAN WHO
MEXICAN EMPLOYEE AT CUBAN EMBASSY AND WHO PUT LEE OSWALD
ON TELEPHONE FROM CUBAN: EMBASSY TO TALK TO SOVIET EMBASSY |
ON 26 SEPT BE ARRESTED IMMEDIATELY, AND HELD INCOMMUNICADO
UNTIL SHE GIVES ALL DETAILS OF OSWALD KNOWN TO HER, (Gee al £ F).
4. LITEMPO 2 CAN SAY D, F,S, COVERAGE REVEALED CALL TO
HIM IF HE NEEDS TO EXPLAIN,

Pipre. 7° END OF MSG

COORDINATING OFFICERS |

. ; ; w.c.c.
| AUTHENTICATING OFFICER , ‘CLASSIFICATION RELEASING OFFICER

“QUTGOING

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l. SAW PHOTOS OF LEE OSWLAD ON TELEVISION NIGHT OF 22 NOV
“AND IT OBVIOUS PHOTOS SENT TO DALLAS WE RE NOT IDEN WITH LEE a
OSWALD HELD DALLAS, DATES ARE AS GIVEN ON PHOTOS. | a
2. M=EXI STATION REVIEWING ALL AVAILABLE PHOTOS: PERSONS _ ——
ENTERING SOVIET AND CUBAN EMBASSIES. .
3, MEXI SUGGESTING TO LITEMPO 2 THAT SILVIA DURAN WHO
MEXICAN EMPLOYEE AT CUBAN EMBASSY AND WHO PUT LEE OSWALD .
ON TELEPHONE FROM CUBAN, EMBASSY TO TALK TO SOVIET EMBASSY.
ON 26 SEPT BE ARRESTED IMMEDIATELY, AND HELD INCOMMUNICADO
UNTIL SHE GIVES ALL DETAILS OF OSWALD KNOWN TO HER, (Gee al £ F).
4. LITEMPO 2 CAN SAY D, F,S, COVERAGE REVEALED CALL TO
HIM IF HE NEEDS TO EXPLAIN,

Pipre. 7° END OF MSG

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“AND IT OBVIOUS PHOTOS SENT TO DALLAS WE RE NOT IDEN WITH LEE a
OSWALD HELD DALLAS, DATES ARE AS GIVEN ON PHOTOS. | |
2. M=XI STATION REVIEWING ALL AVAILABLE PHOTOS: PERSONS a
ENTERING SOVIET AND CUBAN EMBASSIES.
3, MEXI SUGGESTING TO LITEMPO 2 THAT SILVIA DURAN WHO
MEXICAN EMPLOYEE AT CUBAN EMBASSY AND WHO PUT LEE OSWALD
ON TELEPHONE FROM CUBAN: EMBASSY TO TALK TO SOVIET EMBASSY |
ON 26 SEPT BE ARRESTED IMMEDIATELY, AND HELD INCOMMUNICADO
UNTIL SHE GIVES ALL DETAILS OF OSWALD KNOWN TO HER, (Gee al £ F).
4. LITEMPO 2 CAN SAY D, F,S, COVERAGE REVEALED CALL TO
HIM IF HE NEEDS TO EXPLAIN,

Pipre. 7° END OF MSG

COORDINATING OFFICERS |

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his triend Comme mtead $oat als an bed idles cia rhak ooo ey he hae yeaa trend
tie ovdiee ihikteat ibaban ted Hac Pee ae Meet tly eb ae re bea ae ge REET OA woe he
thab €6 was alla fake, dah FLoay HEEL uteat lat dina Ph eb Ua heated tthe dae cavtaae yand

the radio; “that's, what chey. did and ¢ sey ‘lourned about iti that the lost te bad
heard, a monent ogo, vas that that type is cus CSWALD, that it is believed that
this: is the one, ‘but he bas not confessed anything... LUISA: But they alzeady
inow that he speaks Russian and balengs to the Pro-Cubs Counittee; that they
alreedy imow that he vented, te nationalize niasel?, but he has not confessed.
EF says she is right, adding that it could be that they triea to Pind. some let's
gay soliatien from him, pecaise...LUISA after esting nim to walt a nimrte, asks him
; to goon. EPs We ‘Quink that 42 it had been or ~ bad seemed...miblic or had been.
crs of thea 2 sogregaticnista or against integration wno had killed Kennedy, then —

there was, Ist's Bay, the possibility that n sort. of civil ver would, arise in tha
Soy,  Upitea States; that contradictions vould be sharpened, the critical sitabian the
country al going throuzk, then we were commenting here, that’ ‘they Pound a resolu.
tion ‘in this type, nof. Mors international; they will fina it or ‘4t Was trus who.

imows; let's see what heppens. ‘LUISA euiles ani asks vhs will tappen. EP:

ho knows. LUISA: Imagine, one, two, three and now, that makes three (she danas)

me: think that ib will be the tonic of the day at that perty of SILVIA's.

TUzSA: They suspended it Jeeause they could: not Z0- ES asks why, end LOTSA says

“80 thet efter they can cay that ya ore cbserving the Genth of SENNEDY, then wa
i

spokes with SYLVLA dnd she agreed to suspend it and leave f+ until next week, ‘putt it
ag te Taga te hua tok

will not coincide wits the: yard ink (che louusths)". ae Thos has t teen

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his triend Comme mtead $oat als an bed idles cia rhak ooo ey he hae yeaa trend
tie ovdiee ihikteat ibaban ted Hac Pee ae Meet tly eb ae re bea ae ge REET OA woe he
thab €6 was alla fake, dah FLoay HEEL uteat lat dina Ph eb Ua heated tthe dae cavtaae yand

the radio; “that's, what chey. did and ¢ sey ‘lourned about iti that the lost te bad
heard, a monent ogo, vas that that type is cus CSWALD, that it is believed that
this: is the one, ‘but he bas not confessed anything... LUISA: But they alzeady
inow that he speaks Russian and balengs to the Pro-Cubs Counittee; that they
alreedy imow that he vented, te nationalize niasel?, but he has not confessed.
EF says she is right, adding that it could be that they triea to Pind. some let's
gay soliatien from him, pecaise...LUISA after esting nim to walt a nimrte, asks him
; to goon. EPs We ‘Quink that 42 it had been or ~ bad seemed...miblic or had been.
crs of thea 2 sogregaticnista or against integration wno had killed Kennedy, then —

there was, Ist's Bay, the possibility that n sort. of civil ver would, arise in tha
Soy,  Upitea States; that contradictions vould be sharpened, the critical sitabian the
country al going throuzk, then we were commenting here, that’ ‘they Pound a resolu.
tion ‘in this type, nof. Mors international; they will fina it or ‘4t Was trus who.

imows; let's see what heppens. ‘LUISA euiles ani asks vhs will tappen. EP:

ho knows. LUISA: Imagine, one, two, three and now, that makes three (she danas)

me: think that ib will be the tonic of the day at that perty of SILVIA's.

TUzSA: They suspended it Jeeause they could: not Z0- ES asks why, end LOTSA says

“80 thet efter they can cay that ya ore cbserving the Genth of SENNEDY, then wa
i

spokes with SYLVLA dnd she agreed to suspend it and leave f+ until next week, ‘putt it
ag te Taga te hua tok

will not coincide wits the: yard ink (che louusths)". ae Thos has t teen

i oodte!
paroee se

neceurt.  LUIGA: Thnt it will be after the aourning and all cf that nonsense,

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‘she plans to move tonight to the house of the doctor (female). dF asks if they”

know everything now, and LUESA says yes, but a@cesn't imow how the thing is, cr if
they will kavs to stay in: the eabessy, however believes tint today it will not te
|

nossibla, because everyone bas gone to the airy rport and the eabessy bes no car, |

hawevers possibly touorrow morning instead of going to the study circle, aha wild

on

mevee HP: men he vill eal her tonorrov, IWiSA: To.try the embassy or at the

house, since 1? they will not stay at the eabessy, ske wilL zo home where she wild

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395- eed - OV, — From the Cuban Consulate~ Says that there is an
“~~American here who has recuested’a transit visa for Cuba because
he ig going to the USSR. OV. -)Nants to know with whom he (Amerzean)
spoke at the Soviet Embassy tecuase she (OV) had sent him over to
them thinking that if the Soviets approved the visa then the Cubans.
would give him one without anymore. processing - only advising the
Emmi gration of. Cuba. OV - wants:to know with whom he (American) ;
er) spoke since he himself doen't know either and he was told that there
vere no problems. IV. - asks that OV. watt a minute. 404— bio
OV is SILVIA DURAN of the Cuban |Consulate and explains the same to
. : the other IV. . This one te71s her to leave her name and number so
i @s he can call ker. SILEIA gives it to him along with the tel, num.
“ ..11-20-47.— Silvia says as a personal thing thet she has moved and
that she has not edvised about her changezof address and will not
receive the Bulletin and she caniadvise them now. IV. asks that she.
‘+ call KOUKHARENKO in order to change the address, and ther asks for -
the name of the Cultural Attache. SIDVIA spys it is.TERSSA PROZNZA.
whose number is W-13 26. iv. thanks heren- - Ba

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dns va pars la USS y entoncos quiere saber co

quien habia AabLacio porque. 21in lLo- manad con. ollos da ‘la Emba

dada rusa diciondole qua Su uados le hacian o.acaptahan la visa

“que ontonces ollos los’ fen ..0g tambion 88 la daban sin mag ~

tramites nadarias: avisando . Emicgrvacién on Cuba, y quiore sabe
con quien habié | pore que al. sea ve ne gabe tampoco com gue «

persona y quo le dijeron qura st quo ta tonia problema. HD le.

pide ospore un mononto. WO A162 2 oo SILVIA DURAN del

a

- Gonsulado do Cuba x explica lo miame'a otro HD. _Este ie dice
‘que la dojo su. teieZono yous nensbro para que despues le, Llane:
“SILVIA sa lo proporciona ask gono.el tolefono. 11-28-47.- YL que
| aprovocha cone coun personal de que olla so cambio do domieils
-y no ha podido’ avecar pars ae Lo envion ol bolatin yY que ‘eho:
se ‘La puede dare i iin le pice qin: Liane a KOUKHARENKO para que

de su cambio, + pide le. de ok riubaa da la Consejero o Agregac

Cultual., SILVIA dice quer Lia. YURESA PROENZA y lo Llaman

a Embassy 5 ssying there w as an aneric:

it to the 2 USSR, She was ne eked to
elephone numbex (11-28-47).

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Out to 14-13-26.- (1625 hrs). (Cuban Zmbascy) IV. ~ asks the
number of the Cuban Consul. OV, - It's --11-28-47..~ 294.~

Out to 11-28-47.-(1626 brs)~ IV asks SILVIA if the tmerican
has' been there. SILIVA: says yes, he is here now. IV. According
.to the letters that be showed from the Consulate in aashington he
wants to go to Russia to Stay for a long time with his wife who is
Russian. Eut we have not received the answer from aasrington con-
cerning his problem and considering the processing it will take 4
“£0 § months. ‘sithout that permission of the USSR they have to recugst.
and better still ‘the visa can't be given here without asking Sashingte:,
But according to this man, he belengs to an organization in favor of
Cuba and he has said that the Cubans can't give him a visa without the
Russian visa and 1 don't know what to do with him. I have to wait for
the answer from sashineton. SILVIA ~ He have to wait also because his
problem is that he knows no one in Cuba and it's dificult to obtain a
‘visa in these conditions. Ee expected to process the visa. He knew it
would take long to process the Russian visa and would wakt for it in
Cuba and leave’ from there.for the USSR. IV. — The thing is thst if his
wife is now in. “ashington she will receive the visa for returing to
Russia. She will receive the visa in “ashington and having the visa
she can sent it to any place “or examole here or any other place but |
right now she doesn't have it. SILVIA — Naturally, and we can't give _
him a letter of recommendation tecause xe don't know if his visa will
be approved. IV. ~ We will only give the visa according to indications
(intructions) SILVIA. - Then that is what I will put in my rlans.
.  IW.- We can't give him a letter of recommendation either becuase we
don't know him; Please pardon the bother. SILVIA .- No bother and
i _ thank you very much.-~ .
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HD cue senin Zan coehas gun 04 + Loe5 doi canmilada Gik ~
: Soa, Vashing son el qniess fos a ee EA e5tar alld mucin tiempo
i ‘SS con gu osnesa que UGA, re godayia mo se ha recivido 22a _
: Sw contegtacion te Ne gnangten yofygerae a a SU problema, pero eso
: 4 sertin Los erates weGuiyai Vi anakeo 9 canco Teses- pers gin
. “Ne
i \ - tener oSo0 perisiso fie 1a URGE sieves de preguntar ¥ nas bien no

sin preyuntarle a Vashincgte

sa io puedo dapnen:

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de una erganinaci’s - en faves Ue uba y ha dicho que elias Los

scnadade gas oO vigade ruso. +. ahora, .

Cubanos no puocdcn dacle, et
1D no gabe que hacer con e1, porque aeben de ogparar Lo. contes~

tacidén do. Washington. SILVIA que ollos ttambion, porque el pro~,”
blema do. el,;: as que ol no, corece a nadio,en Cuba ¥ entonces a

os asi os ‘muy dificil quo te don la visa, porgue el pensaba .-

“ tramitar gu. visa, porque CONG ol ya sabia que se iba a tardaxr

mucho. on esperar ol. visado iGo en Cuba y yo do alld irse a

La URSS« ‘ID quo la cosa es ey 20 si su’ osposa osté “ahorita en |.
Washington va a roeibir anerita el vis sado a oL ‘pexrmiso de la

URSS para regresar a La pate ‘ha, olla va a recibir su visado en

- Washing gton pero temiendo ase vigado-ella podrian comunicarle
a cualquier lugar ese perniso por ajemplo aqui o ecm cualquier

otra parte lo puede rocibir, pere ahorita no lag ticnon- SiLvi

: _ ‘que clara y que tay oco so le miocda dar una carta porque no
. “gaben . si ou visa sord ap provada . lipD ‘que ollos solo daran ol visi
on : do sogin las indicacionces. SILVLA que entonces eso pondrd en s!
see my planilia.. ID. que “gnmpoco se le puedo dar ninguna carta da —--+
so  secomondacién por equic no gO ia conosco y quo perdone por: "La aes.
: coy a moles tia. STLY- iA que no nay cnidade y gue muchas craciases=-
re Oo ~~. 391-~ . —_ . : - 7 | | ; : : :
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at + 208 IN ~ OV. from the Cuban Consulate — says thet there is
! ; an American there in the Consulate who kad been at th2 Boviet
Embassy. IV. Wait a minute. 213-~ OV. Is SILVIA DURAN and
speaks English with someone outside--and comments in Spanish
that they installed a telephone for APARICIO and takes down the
~. number as 14-12-99-—- 230-- SILYI8 informs (them) of the American .
and ‘says she will call.-~- 232--235-~ OV.- speaks“in Russian. IV.-
.Speaks in English.-~ EOTH CONTINUES IN ENGLISH,——254 —1151 hrse=m ~

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von su: \Consuladd esta.tip, nuns norteageri cana _ rey astra alld
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if

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speaks in Baglish/to someone in the b jckarounds He ‘said wot

| a don't ENOWs + /MO takes the ‘phone end says in broken Russie

: ’ I was 4n your. Embassy end spoke to your consul. Just a minn
| MI tokes ‘the phones and asa HO in Bnslish. what does he wont
“in Russisn/ Please speck: Russien. | oe |

What else do you want?

tT was just now at your Enbessy end they took my ‘address .
T know thet. — a
/speaks terribls, hardly recognizable Russian/ I did not.

know it then. I went to the Cuban Snbss3yz. to ssk them ‘for:

my eddr ress, b because they nave it.

why ‘don't you ‘come again and leave jour address with US» it
not far from the Cubea Embassye_

Well, I'll be there risht away.

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LLSL hora of 72 Sapterber 1963 by Silvia DURAN
of the Cuasan ‘eassy who puts on an unidentified
norteansrican man who tells the Soviet tnat he
was just 3% their Breassy and wants to give then
his addrzss, ‘ne Soviet tells him to return to -

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In at 103i. HO. calks to i $a sroken Russian.

“MO: Hollow. I vas ni your ples. basi Saturday sad T Salkod to.
- ;

: ” your “consul Taoy geid taat thoy! send a tolegram to Wa- 7 .

shington,. and 3 x t wanted | to ask you if there is enything new? :

Ws - I'd like to ésk- “you: to call another. phone numbers of. 4

_ MOs - Plosase. ~ _ ae . Be at co

MES . ‘Please rit to Ae downs 15~ 60 3-55, and ask - for @ consul. ce -

MO; “Maank you. oo ce : ce eee ys

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ro a a tetephons call to the Soviet ilitary Attache
ae oo at 1031 hows on 1 October 19635 by an unidentified

man speaking broken Russian who asked about a
telegran xhich they were to send to Washington,
Unidentified man said he was at the Sovies Zrbassy .
"last Saturday”. Soviet. told him to call 15-60-55.

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-In at 268 (7)
at ago and spoke in broken Russian/ speaks to CBEEDKOVs 4

“MMOs Hello, this LEE OSWALD (phon) speaking. I was at your plac

ae * Last Saturday and spoke to a consul, and they said that

ui ae they'@ send 2 telegram to Washington, so Zr wanted to find

wo fo 77 out: ig you have, _ Snything new? But t don't remember the nar
OBY: 6 is’ dark /nair or skint /

3  Yese Ny ‘nsme. is OSWALD »
. 'QBYs © Just rz) minute I'Ll find out. They aay thet they neventt
received anything yet. — oe

a Have they done anything? .
OBYs . %e8, they say that a request has bean sent out, but at nobhts

has been received aS yote
LEE: And wate. ? /o8Y hangs wp/.

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MO: Hello, this LEE CSWALO (yhon) spesei 4. Uo was 2% your place Last
Saturday and spoxe to a consul, and 4 ta baat taey'd send a
telepran to Washington, 50 I ZT wanted. fini ons if you have mthing
new? But i don't reaeaber the namt --° thes consul. .
O3¥: KOSTIKOV, He is dark /nair or skin:/,
LEZ: Yes. My nans is OSWALD.
OBY: Just a minute TL find out, They vy. 2 that they haven't received anything yet,
LEE: Have they. done anything? ; . .
OBYs Yes, they say that a a Tequest has beon gent out, but nothing has been - ;
received as yet. . ee .
EE: And what...? fox: hangs up/, :

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An Extract From
Washington Post,

Kennedy's Address to Press
Tuesday, November 19, 1963, p. Al5

(AP). Nov. 18 -- The following is a text of President Kennedy's address
tonight before the Inter-American Press Association:

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"The genuine Cuban re
ny and corruption of the p
concepts were noble.

"But that hope for fr
"The goals proclaimed
"It is important to r

and from all the American
of conspirators has stripp

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volution -- because it was against the tyran-
last -- had the support of many whose aims and

eedom and progress was destroyed.

|in the Sierra Maestra were betrayed in Havana.

estate what now divides Cuba from my country
countries: It is the fact that a small band
éd the Cuban people of their freedom and hand-

ed over the independence and sovereignty of the Cuban nation to forces

beyond the hemisphere. Th
ism, an instrument of the.
tated by external powers t
and this alone divides us:
Without it everything is p

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ley have made Cuba a victim of foreign imperial-
policy of others, a weapon in an effort dic-

o subvert the other American republics. This,
NAS long as this is true nothing is possible.
ossible. ;

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Ready and Anxious

"Once this barriér is
with the Cuban people in P,

short years ago, stirred their hopes

throughout the entire hemi!

"No Cuban need feel t
ises of foreign communism
For once Cuban sovereignty,
friendship and assistance,

; removed we will be ready and anxious to work
ursuit of those progressive goals which, a few
and the sympathy of many people
sphere. ,

rapped between dependence on the broken prom-
and the hostility of the rest of the hemisphere.
has been restored we will extend the hand of .
to a Cuba whose political and economic insti-

tutions have been shaped by the will of the Cuban people."
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An Historic Report from Two Capitals

Jean Daniel

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A recent trip. to the United Stites, fol lowed by a jorrney to Cuba, made it
possil? le for me to establish a “dial logue” between the late President Kennedy and
Prime Minister Firlel Castro. Si ce ny arrival in Mexico, where this article is
being written, [inve been asked 3 nohet her the impressions [ derived from these

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interviews could shed any light | on the assassination of the President and on

future relations between Lynde)

1 B. Johnson and Castro.

* Last week in these pages | answered the first question by describing the re-

actions of Fidel Castro, with whom ‘twas visiting at the time, to Joliu.Ken-
‘ nedy’s death. Here I shall explore the second question by reconstituting the

Kennedy: Castro dial ogue from the viewpoint of one who.was a witness to it.

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President Kennedy received me at the White .House
on Tuesdays October 24. My aprommens had been
scheduled for 5:30. I waited in the Cabinet Conference
"oom, and at 5:45 the President, following his usual
custom, came to look for me himself so. that he. éould
escort me into his office. He apologized for the. delay,
not so much as a courtesy or te flatter me, but to ex-
plain the scheduling of his time, which seemed to be
very Strictly organized, As we passed through the small
room where his secretary was working, we catight a
climpse of Mrs. Kennedy leaving by a French window
on her way to the private garden. of the White House.
The President called her back tu introduce me.
‘Tr was. still Indian summer in Washington. The
weather was very warm, and both the President and

Mrs Kennedy were very lightly dressed, thus enhanc- ;

ing the impression of youth, charm, and simplicity
whi, h was in rather surprising contrast to the solemnity

of entering these august chambors.. The President.

(ath hletic looking in his well-tailored suit, speaking: iwith
quick, abrupt gestures and a mobile expression bit, at
times, freezing up and becoming disconcertingly, al-
mowt, TE would say, completely expressionless) invited
me-to be seated-on, the semi-circular sofa which was in
the middle of his office. He sat in a rocking chair op-
_ posite the sofa. The interview was to last from.20 to 25
minutes, and it was interrupted only by a brief. tele-
phone call.
The President immediately asked me how the French
situation was developing. After my reply, hé spoke
akout General de Cagle. He talked ina relaxed Fashion,

THe AUTHOR

like someone who has at last found solace in indiffer~
ence after having long been exasperated and fascinated.
John Kennedy was a mian who liked to get to the heart
of.a matter quickly, “Slam-make decisions even more
rapidly. But this was not possible in dealing with de
Gaulle, who is more difficult to handle than Khru-
shchev. One day, impatient at not understanding the
General’s reasoning and intent upon convincing him,
Kennedy telephoned de Gaulle direct. All in vain. Odd-
ly enough, however; since the recent visit of de Gaulle’s

foreign minister, Couve de Murvil'e, to Washington
Mr. Kennedy had ceased to be so deeply concerned

about Franco-American relations. The truth is, he had
minde up his mind not to worry about them any more.
According to him, it was a waste of time. |

“Mr. Couve de Murville and I both verified that we
didn’t agree on anything,” the President told me. “And
we agreed that'such total disagreement was hardly cal-
culated to create a flourishing friendship between two
great Western, ations. I came ta the conclusion that
General de Gaulle’s strategy, which is: rather incom-
prehensible to me, requires a certain amount of tension
with the United States. It would seem that-only through
this tension is it possible to restore to Europé the desire

on American dollar aid and political puida
President Kennedy went on to sum.

the United States and France. On the
many, nuclear policy, Europe, the -[
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me ered

knowledye. He added, however, that France pee A
strange way of manifesting its indeperldence, par

ularly, For example, on the subject of} Vietnam and
Cuba, It seemed ironic and irritating tdchim that the
French Chief Executive was apparently. bent on telling
him how the Unised States should proceed, without
assuming any risks himself. He told me that no one was
more appreciative than he of advice, information, and
even criticism; but that these were all the more valued

if the friends proffering them were themselves com--

mitted to a program of action.

I then asked Mr.
from General de Gaulle’s proposed visit to the United
States next February. He replied: ’ ‘Absolutely nothing.”
But he followed this up immediately and with a broad
grin, as though savering in neve the pleasure of
the impending meeting: “Tt will be exciting, just the
same. General de Gaulle is an historic fipure; he is de-
cidely the strangest great man of our jtime.”

Relations with Cuba

Taking the initiative at this point, I brought up the

subject of Vietnam and Cuba, saying that the Gaullists
were not the only ones in France who deplored certain
mistaken US policies. I pointed out that the first time
{had the opportunity of meeting Jolin Kennedy, he
was a Senator and had just made a resounding speech
on the subject of Algeria. “Athe ideas set forth in
that speech been faithfully applied Jin Saigon and
Havana? Here my notes are very epecilic, and [| shall
let the late President speak through them: ;
“We haven't enough time to talk ‘about Vietnam,
but I’d like to talk to you about Cuba. Incidental ly, our
conversation will be much more interesting when you
return, because Ben Bradlee [of Newsweek] tells me
you are on your way to Cuba now. | oo
“Every now and then T read articles in the European
press pointing out that we Americans, were blind to
what was happening in the Cuban situation. Thave just
learned that General de Gaulle himself regarded Com-
munism in Cuba as nothing but thel accidental and

_ temporary form of a will to independence from the

United States. OF course it is very. easly to understand
this ‘will to independence’ around President de Gaulle
John Kennedy then mustered all his persuasive force.
He punctuated each sentence with that jbrief, mechan-
ical gesture which had. become famous:
' “T tell you this: we know perfectly what happened
_in Cuba, to the misferseme 2 all, From the beginning
I “T personally followed the development of these events
with mounting concern. There are few subjects to which
I have devoted more painstaking attention. My conclu-

_ sions go much further than the European analyses. Here

is what I believe.

Kennedy what could be expected!

‘ica are na, going to attain justice and progress

“t believe that there is no country in the world.
cluding all the African regions, Paci ing any and “ll
the countries under colonial domination, where cco-

_ nomic colonization, humiliation and expicitation were.

worse than in Cuba, in part owing to my country 's
policies during the Batista regime. 1 believe that we
created, built and manufactured the Castro movement
out of whole cloth and without realizing it. I believe
that the accumulation of these mistakes has jeopardized
all of Latin America, The great aim of the Alliance for
Progress is to reverse this unfortunate policy. This is
one of the most, if not the most, important problems in
American foreign policy. I can assure you that I have
understood the Cubans. I approved the proclamation
which Fidel Castro made in the Sierra Maestra, when
he justifiably called for justice and especially yearned to

rid Cuba of corruption. I will go even further: to some

extent it is as.though Batista was the incarnation of a
number of sins on the part of the United States. Now
we'shall have to pay for those.sins. In the matter of the
Batista regime, [ am in agreement with the first Cuban
revolutionaries. That is perfectly clear.”

After a silence during which he was able to note my
surprise and my interest, the President continued: “But
it is also clear that the problem has ceased to be a
Cuban one, and has become international — that is, it
has become a Soviet problem. I am the ‘President of the
United States and not a sociologist; | am the President
of a free nation which has certain responsibilities in the
Free World. I know that Castro betrayed the promises
made in the Sierra Maestra, and that he has agreed to

‘be a Soviet agent in Latin America. 1 know that through

his fault'— either his ‘will to independence’, his .nad-
ness or Communism ~ the world was on the verge of
nuclear war in October, 1962. The Russians understood
this very well, at least after our reaction; but.so far as
Fidel Castro. is concerned, | must say I don’t know
whether he realizes this, or evén if he cares about it.”
A smile, then:

way, | mean through Communist subversion.
won't get there ‘by going from economic oppression to
a Marxist dictatorship which Castro himself denounced
a few years ago. The United States now has t ;
sibility of doing as much good in Latin Amet
has done wrong in the past; I would even say
alone have this power — on the essential conditi

Communism does not take over there.”

Mr. Kennedy then rose to indicate L&at the
was over. I apologized for keeping him t¢ éwo

quick questions. The first: Could the Unj ates
tolerate economic collectivism? He answe that
~ about Sckou Touré? And Tito? I received Mi to
three days Ago, and our discussions were OSi-

“You ‘can tell me whether he does when,
"you come back. In any case, the nations of Latin Amer-


Attorney General de

_ Mike Madigan
Chron File

January 29, 1976

The Honorable Edward . Levi

U. S. Department of Justice’
Washington, 0. C. 20530 F

Deer Mr. Attorney Generals) |
As you may recsll, in June of last year alleged organized

ij

‘crime leader Sam Gfancana was killed. At that time, this Coumittes

had taken steps te contact |ffr. Glancana. for the purpose of obtafning.
his testiaony em cur assassinations inquiry then under way. However,
we hed not yet succeeded {a contacting Hr. Giancana er anyone on his.

Shortly after Mr. Glancana's death, Mr. Michael T. Epsteta of

. our staff met with Mr. Willfem Lynch, Chief, {zed Crime Secticn,

Department of Justice, andj members of Mir. Lynch's staff te inform
them of the Committee's actions taken te contact Mir. Glancana, and _
its interest with respect to determining whether there was any relatica-—

- ghip between the Committee's desire to examine Mr. Glancana and his

murder. Mr. Lynch {aformed Mr. Epstefn at that time that there was.

no indication of any such relationship and assured him that fa the

event any such indication was discovered, the Coamfttee would be
fumediately informed. =| Do,

‘The Committee has récetved ne further information from the

Department about this matter since last June. For the purposes. of -

completing our record on this subject, I would apprectate {t.{f you
would iaform the Cousitteal whether the Department has received any
additional faformation about this subject since-the above-described
meeting. ac

i Sincerely yours;
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Frank Church
Cha {rman


Street in Houston,

‘care of a Dr.

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Giancana occurred on June

Committee staff received a ‘telephone communication from

Robert Bennett, Assistant '

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District Attorney, Houston, Texas.

talking to Mr. Shea that Mr. Bennett -

called the Committee to adhise that Sam Giancana was admitted

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attempt to contact Giancana for the purposes of interview-

ing him in order to determine whether he would have suffi-

_cient information to wabrant an appearance before

tee as a whole. It is| iy memory that we did decide that

he was of sufficient importance to be interviewed

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During this same period of time, I discussed with

Messrs. Schwarz and Milller whether we should consider —_

issuing a subpoena: for|Mr. Giancana while he was in the

hospital. I made this|,jsuggestion because of an impression

I had that Giancana was difficult ‘to locate. I should add

that I see absolutely nothing prejudicial or improper or

discourteous in the issuing of a subpoena, but rather
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‘regard a subpoena as a valid method of obtaining testimony

before a Congressional Committee. In any event, my dis-

cussion with Messrs. Schwars and Miller resulted in a

decision to have me contact Mr. Giancana over the

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reached the point of bringing before the Committee the ques -
tion of whether Giancana should be subpoenaed. to testify.
After the initial phone call from Bennett to Shea, I
telephoned Bennett on two’ different occasions. My telephone a
contact with. Bennett was for the purpose of our locating
Giancana and a telephone number at which I could reach him.
Bennett initially indicated to me, as described earlier in
this memorandum, that Giancana was in the hospital. My recol-
lection is that on my second telephone call with Bennett, he
informed me that Giancana. was now out of the hospital and

staying at the Warwick Hotel. Finally, I recall calling the

Methodist Hospital in Houston and asking to speak to Mr.

Giancana. I recall that the hospital authorities indicated

that they had no such person by that name in the hospital.

I do not recall the precise date of this telephone communication
to the hospital. It is my: recollection that the name used by
_Glancana was Doc Brown. 1) am uncertain whether Bennett told me
Giancana was using "Doc Brown" at both the hospital and the
hotel, but I believe he said that the alias was used at the

hospital. Bennett advised. that Giancana had been visited by

several relatives. and gave’ me the names of a muple of persons

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who he thought were Giarldana’ s sons-in- law. The only name aE,

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I remember is that of Tilsei.
In either the seconfl| or possibly a.third conversation
with Bennett, he told ne ‘that Giancana had now. checked out
of the hotel and was. either on his way back: to his home in
Oak Park, Illinois, or with his daughter in California. He __
provided me with the telephone number of the daughter in
California and suggested I obtain Giancana's home number from
the information directory. in Illinois.
The telephoné conversations with Bennett occurred, to
the best of my recollection, during the week of June 16, 1975. —
It is possible, however, that the first conversation occurred

later in the week of June: 9. It is my recollectimthat my

second telephone conversation with Bennett occurred on Thurs-

day June 19. In any event, I am certain that I attempted to-
contact Giancana by telephone on Thursday, June 19. I was
unable to. get anyone. to answer the telephone in California
and did not have an opportunity to attempt ‘to obtain the -
Illinois number. I Learned Friday, June 20 that Giancana had

been shot and killed in his home in Oak Park, Illinois on-

the evening of June 19.

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The Washington Post
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Long .before his recent murder,

John Rosselli. the CIA's underworld
recruit in attempts to kill Fidel Cas-
tro, had been privately claiming that
agents of the Cuban premier, in retali-
cation, were involved in the assassina-
“tion of President John F. Kennedy. ©

Rosselli’s belief in a-Cuban connec-
tion to the Kennedy assassination was
‘expressed through his attorney, Ed-
ward P. Morgan, to the FBI as long.
ago as March, 1967, and also in private.
.conversations with a longtime associ-
cate of Rosselli who participated in
mectings between Rosselli : ‘and the
CIA. o

An FBI “blind “memorandum” on
-an interview with Morgan | dated |
March 21, 1967, was included, without —

identification of the interviewee, in.
last June’s Senate intelligence Com. °

mittee’s report on the role of the in-

telligence community in the Kennedy

assassination investigation.

Morgan told the FBI that Rosselli
and another Morgan client had in-
formed him that Castro became aware
of CIA assassination conspiracies

against him and “thereafter employed ~

teams of individuals who were dis-

’ patched to the. United States for the ;
Ken: .

purpose of assassinating Mr,
nedy.”

of the 106-page

in June, before. Rosselli’s disappear-

“ance and the subsequent discovery of |

his body in an oil drum in Florida
waters. The Washington Post, however,
has confirmed that Morgan.and “Rosselli
. were the sources of the testimony, that
suggested a Cuban role in.. the Ken-
nedy murder.
Morgan’s account,
summary of the FBI interview, ‘was.
that Rosselli had reached his conclu-

sion about a Cuban connection to the:

Kennedy assassination: from

‘feedback” furnished by sources close °

to Castro who were involved inthe CIA
plots to assassinate the Cuban leader.
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Because neither. Morgan nor Ros- |
selli was identified in the Senate re- -
port, the significance of that portion °
document was dis- -
_ counted at the time it was published:

according: to a

“tlis (Morgan’s) clients were aware
of the identity of some of the individ-
uals who came to the United States
for this purpose and he understood
that two such individuals were now in
the state of New Jersey,” the FBI in-
. terview summary stated. .

“oe

A long-time associate. of Rosselli-

_Wwho was interviewed separately by
‘The Washington Post, said there was

‘no question in the slain mobster’s .
1 mind that President Kennedy was -

i killed on Castro's behalf in reprisal

‘for the CIA schemes against the Cu-.

. ban leader..

. “He was positive; he was sure.” said
, the associate, who knew Rosselli well
_and was in-contact with him before
‘Rosselli disappeared from his Florida

‘home on July 28. The associate, who

* does not want to be identified pub-
licly, is scheduled to be interviewed
; this week by Dade County, Fla.. homi-
: cide detectives. He was a party to Ros-
‘selli’s contacts in the early 1960s with

.CIA case officers overseeing the - at-
tempts to assassinate Castro. 1

Despite occasional speculation, the

collective conclusion of all official

U.S. government investigations into
- the Kennedy assassination—including
‘the Warren Commission, the FBI and

the CIA—has been that there was no

evidence: that implicated the Castro

: government or any of its agents.

However, the CIA’s inyolvement in

_the schemes to assassinate . Castro

was not divulged to the Warrén Com-

mission, and knowledge of them was
confined until 1967 to a small, elite
_cirele of the U. ‘S. intelligence commu-

tnity.” President Johnson apparently

‘first learned about the schemes only
-after a March 7, 1967, column by the
slate Drew Person, which prompted
‘Johnson to order a
:of the highly sensitive episode.

Full details of the CIA- underworld

CIA investigation |

‘collusion in the plots to kill Castro .

:did not surface publicly until the pub-

‘lication last year of the Senate Intelli- .

‘gence Committee’s assassination re:
port and the ensuing report last June
on the possible role of the intelligence

a ed

agencies in the Kennedy assassination, ,

and investigation.
The body of Rosselli, who lived
flamboyantly in a world of mobsters,

politicians and playgirls, was found .

two weeks ago in an inverted oil drum
;weighted with chains but buoyed by :
* gases from decomposition on the’

_jocean’s surface off the coast of Miami,
The specific cause of death was deter- -

mined by an autopsy, to _be asphyxia-
‘tion.
> Last year, an underworld colleague
‘of Rosselli, Sam (Momo) Giancana,
who also had been recruited. by the
“CIA in-the effort to kill Castro, was .
found shot to death in his Chicago
‘home: in what police described as a
highly professional job by assailants!
‘who penetrated the ‘mobster’s per-
‘sonal security screen. Giancana was
due to testify before the Senate Intel-
‘ligence Committee shortly after his.
tdemise.

Neither murder Ras been solved.
i ‘The possibility that Rosselli’s mur-
der might have been related to his
Senate testimony on the CIA schenies
to kill Castro has brought the FBI
‘into the investigation at the request
_of Attorney General Edward H. Levi.

The involvement of Rosselli, Gian-
cana and other underworld figures—
principally Santos Trafficante of
Tampa, Fla, whose one-time Havana
gambling enterprises fell hostage in
-1959 to the Cuban revolution—in plots

against Castro had been a closely held |

secret within the top echelons of the
CIA and FBI until recently.

The tangled chronology of suppres-
sion and eventual disclosure, although
detailed in the June report, has re-
ceived little public attention. Rossel-
i's murder adds significance to those
events.

Here is the sequence, pieced to-
gether from the testimony given to
‘Senate intelligence investigators:

Columnist _Drew Pearson went to

“the late Chief Justice of ‘the United”

States Earl Warren late in: January,
1967. and told him that

of his clients said the United States
“had attempted to assassinate Fidel
Castro in the early 1960s and Castro.
had decided to retaliate.” -

Warren declined Pearson’s sugges- .

tion that he see the lawyer, who was

Edward Morgan. Warren referred the ©
matter to then Secret Service Direc- -
tor James J. Rowley, who on Feb. 13,-

1967, wrote FBI Director J. Edgar Ho-
over, informing him of the allegations.

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a Washington.
lawyer had confided to him:that one~

+ Hoover sent the Rowley letter to six
qsenior burcau officials on an “eyes-
;onty” basis. There is no record of FBI
meetings or discussions of those alle-
gations. At that point the sensitive let-
ter bounced back and forth’in the
higher reaches of the FBI bureauc-
racy.

The job of responding, to Rowley’s
letter was assigned to the supervisor
of the FBI’s General Investigative Di-

‘vision who was given responsiility for. -

the overall assassination investigation

‘in March 1964.

-* early in

This official's job was complicated

| by the fact that he had never been in-
‘, formed of what Hoover and his closest

ircle of confidants in the FBI learned

deeply involved. in assassination

, attempts against Castro, and promi-

nent American underworld figures, in-
cluding. Rosselli and Gianeana, had

"been recruited for the attempts.

. Cuban Government were

:; So on Feb, 15, 1967, the PBL official,
“prepared a draft reply to the Rowley~
_. letter for his superiors saying “our ins
“+ vestigation uncovered no evidence in-

dicating Fidel Castro officials of the
involved

:.with Lee Harvey-Oswald in the assas-

sination of President Kennedy. This

’ ‘bureau is not conducting; any investi-
. gation regarding this matter.” ‘The

BI official added in later testimony.

, that “everyone. in the higher echelons
» read this . :

Drew Pearson went ahead and pub-

" Nished a column on March 7, 1967, ret-

erring to reports that CIA schemes
against Castro’s life in 1963 “may

* have resulted in a counterplot by Cas-

tro to assassinate President Kenne-
dy.” :
Ten days Tater, Marvin Watson. one

-.. of Lyndon Johnson's chief deputies,
. called FBI. assistant director Cartha
> DeLoach with the message that “the

- President had instructed that the FBI’

‘the assassination of President Ken:

interview (Morgan) concerning any
‘knowledge he might have regarding.

-nedy.”

DeLoach told Watson, that ‘it ap

“peared Morgan “did not want to be in-
terviewed, and even if he was_inter-

Loach concluded in. a memo for the.

‘viewed he would probably not divulge
the identity of his sourcés . . .” . Wat:
son persisted, however.

“Under the circumstances,” De.

7 files. “it appears that we have no al-

ternative but to interview (Morgan)

ig62—that the CIA was”

and then furnish the results to Wat-.

son in blind memorandum form.”:
The interview was assigned’ to two

agents from the FBI’s General Investi-

gative Division, which the Senate

»

_ committee concluded was “puzzling”

because it was the Domestic Intelli-
gence Division which had heen as-
signed responsibility for investigating
possible foréign involvement in the
assassination.

Neither agent was privy to the
knowledge, confined to Hoover and
his top aides, of the CIA's assassina-
tion plots against,Castro. Both agents
testified eight years later that they
were “surprised” when Morgan al-
luded during the interview ‘to U.S. at-
tempts to assassinate Castro.

“These agents stated that they

could not evaluate the lawyer’s’
“(Morgan’s) allegations or question him
in detail on them, since they had not
been briefed on the CIA assassination
efforts,” the Senate committee ob-
served.
. On March 21, 1967, the FBI’s Wash-
ington Field Office sent headquarters
ten copies of a blind memorandum
summarizing the interview with Mor-
gan..

Ina Senate Intelligence Committee
summary of the FBI interview, Mor-

-" gan was reported to“have acknowi-

edged that his clients' were “on the
fringe of the underworld” and that
they faced “possible prosecution in a'

-erime not related to the assassination
1 .

Morgan said his clients “were called
upon by a governmental agency to as-
sist in a project which was said to .
have the highest governmental ap--
proval. The project had .as its purpose
the assassination of Fidel Castro.
Elaborate plans were made. including

. the infiltration of the Cuban Govern. -

ment and the placing of- ‘informants
within key posts in Cuba.”

Morgan also told the FBI, according
to the summary, that Castro had em-
ploved “teams ‘of individuals who
were dispatched to the United States.,
for the purpose of assassinating Presi-.

dent Kennedy.”

It was not “clear then—nor is it to:
day—why Morgan’ came forward at <
that time to bring Rosselli’s story to
the ears of the nation’s highest law.
enforcement authorities.

it may be relevant that Rosselli had.
‘serious legal problems at the time.

in May, 1966, the FBI. threatened to
deport. him for living in the United
States tinder an assumed name unless
he cooperated in an investigation of
the Mafia (his true. name was Filippo
Saco). At the time, he reached’ a CIA
contact from the anti-Castdo conspir-
acy days, CIA security director Col.

__ Sheffield Edwards, who informed the

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FBI that Rosselli wanted’ to “keep |
square with the bureay” but was 4
afraid that the mob might kill: ‘him for’ ;
talking. +
In 1967, after he was: arrested - Hor
gambling fraud at the Friars. Club! in :
Beverly Hills, Rosselli approached his

former CIA case-officer, William Har: °
vey, who sought unsuccessfully je ‘ine a

tercede in the prosecution. . ;
[t was against this background that

Morgan went, first. to. Drew Pearson, ?

and then the FBI, with Rossélli’s sen-

sational allegations of CIA plotting. :

against Castro and the Cuban counter- :

espionage directed against ‘President a

_ Kennedy.
Last April, Rosselli told ‘the Senate

Intelligence Committee te had no rec. =

ollection. of either recelving informa: '
tion that Castro retaliated against -
- President Kennedy or of having ‘dis- .

cussed it with Morgan. This meant ei- -:

ther that Rosselli suffered a dramatic -

memory loss or that Morgan’s state- -
ment to FBI agents nine years earlier
was a pure invention, 4 Serious risk
for an established Washington lawyer.

No committee source could explain
the discrepancy, and Morgan declined
to confirm that Rosselli was the client
in question or to discuss either his
allegations against the Cuban govern-
ment or his recent testimony.

The internal FBI memo on the 1967
interview with ‘Morgan was sent, to
headquarters with a transmittal slip
saying: “No further ‘investigation is
being conducted. by the Washington
field office unless it is advised to the
contrary by the Bureau.” ©

The Senate intelligence committee,
in commenting on this position, said
that “had the interviewing agents.
known of the CiA-underworld plots -
against Castro, they would have been.
aware that the lawyer had clients who.

. had been active in the assassination

t

plots.”
On March 21, FBI headquarters for-
warded the Washington field office
memo to the White Housel the attor-
ney general and.the Secret Service. Jt
did not recommend any further ‘in-
vestigation of Morgan’s allegations.
On the evening of the following.
day, President Johnson called CIA Di-
rector Richard M. Helms to‘the White
House. The next morning; March 23,-
Helms ordered the CIA inspector gen- |
eral to prepare a report on the CIA:

involvement in the assassination plots | 7

—Operation : Mongoose—of which FT
Helms had full knowledge at. the tirhe} |
they were executed...) 91" &:

By May 22, Helms briefed President
Johnson on the results.’ There is, how-*
ever, no evidence that Helms briefed)

the President on the November, 1963,
plot—one of eight major schemes _on - on,

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‘

-3-

* Gastro’s life from 1960 ta 1965—to as-

| sassinate the Cuban leader through

‘the employment of an agent with the
-¢ryptonymn AMLASH. His identity
was - revealed as Rolando Cubela, a
1961 CIA “recruit” with close access.
| to Castro.

CIA operatives turned over assassi-

‘nation equipment to Cubela during a,

* Paris meeting on November 22, 1963—.
ithe ‘day President Kennedy was killed,
in Dallas. There has been subsequent

“ speculation that' the mercurial and. :
"talkative Cubela was either a double... ;
~ agent or being; monitored. by Cuban .

‘intelligence. \

During the later days: of his” presi.’

> dency, Mr. Johnson: spoké cryptically
‘of a “Caribbean Murder Incorpo:

ubtedly was the CIA - ‘inspector gen- .
‘eral’ 's report he ordered, Helms to. have

prepared.

i | Within the past: year, Rosselli: and
two of his co-conspirators in the Cas-
i.tfo assassination schemes have died,
‘ Giancana al the hands of a profes-

4 sional hit man and Harvey as the re-

: sult ‘of a “massive heart attack”’ last
dune. .

| Mrs: William Harvey, the widow of
| the deceased. CIA ! official, said she -

, Suspected no foul play in her hus-

£ band’s death. She did, however, tell.

The Washington Post that she re-

: ance in late July warning her that Cu-
‘Bans appeared to be attempting to
wipe out all those who participated in
| the anti- Castro plots.

The call, she said, came from an old
friend who was acquainted with Ros-
sellils sister, whose name is Edith Dai-
: gle. Mrs, Harvey said that Mrs. Daigle
told the mutual acquaintance that the
| Rosselli family had received a tele-
| phone threat from unidentified Cu-
+ bans prior to Rosselli’s disappearance.
| She also said that Rosselli had gone to.
“meet the Cubans in an effort to pro-
* tect his family. ra

t

Mrs. Daigle could not be reached. ‘by:

~ The Washington Post. But another sis-
‘ter of Rosselli said she had heard of.
i, no such threats or warnings.
_ JHarvey, who died at age 60 and
“whose exploits as a clandestine opera-
: tor are both legendary and controver-

t sial within the agency, testified to the —

_Senate Intelligence Committee. He’
had become Rosselli’s case officer in .
Operation Mongoose and supplied the
mobster with poison pills, explosives,
: detonators, rifles, handguns,
and beat radar for transmission to

:_,anti-Castro Cuban agents. Harvey and © ;
*“*" Rosselli, a CTA superior testified to -

_ the Senate iene “developed a
> close friendship.” — .

, tated” targeted ' ‘against’ Fidel Castro. , :

“ceived a call after Rosselii’s disappear- -

radios: ~

x

" Another CIA official who worked
: with Rosselli, James!R. O'Connell, was
- asked if he knew wrethe the agency
: transmitted information/to the mab-

ster.on possible Cuban involvement in
' the Kennedy assassination. He replied

that he was out of' the dountry at the
_ time Kennedy was Killgd, ar and had. no

** further comment. +

Two months before the Kennedy as-

sassination, Lee Harvey ‘Oswald, who,
- was identified by the!
sion as Kennedy’ sm
' eled to Mexico City''in an attempt to

gain entry to Cuba. According to the
- Warren Commission, Oswald repre-

.. sented himself as the head of the New
*; Orleans branch of the Fair Play for

Cuba organization and a friend of the
_ Cuban Revolution.

Some three months before Kennedy

was killed, Castro told Associated

Press reporter Daniel Harker that:

_ U.S. leaders aiding terrorist plans to
eliminate Cuban leaders would them-

/ selves not be safe. ‘
AUS. government committee coor-
dinating policy toward Cuba at the

~ time agreed there is a strong liklihood

that Castro would retaliate in some
fashion. However, it concluded Castro
would not risk a major confrontation
with the US. by attacking U.S. lead-
ers.

On the same day Kennedy was as-
sassinated, a CIA officer met with a

high-ranking Cuban official, who had-

said he would kill Castro, to tell him.

the U.S. would provide him with ex- :

- plosives and a poison pen device.
While the Senate Intelligence Com-
mittee said it found no evidence suffi-
cient to justify a conclusion that the
Kennedy assassination was part of a
conspiracy, it also said U.S. ‘agencies
did not properly investigate the assas-
‘sination .or tell the Warren Commis-
. pon about the CIA plots on Castro’s
ife.

“There is no indication that the FBI
or the CIA directed the interviewing
of Cuban sources or sourees within
the Cuban exilé community,” the Sen-
ate committee said.

According to a former FBI official
in charge of key aspects of the FBI's
probe of the Kennedy murder,. the
FBI never satisfactorily determined
what Oswald planned to do in Cuba or
what he had done in Russia. .

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pinpointed troop: and ‘naval
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wrote in tho Sunday edition. .

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ton, ‘retired general counsel of.
the CIA, said of the story:

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thing, but that doesn’t mean it ,
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and Loving just before, thelr: -
hosty departure from Cuba:

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‘gangsters were dispatched to *

the Castro takeover. .
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money tliat Granello, Levine,

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“asdured they would be able to .-
recover unhindered {f the Cas- :
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“have said that in preparation —

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MEMORANDUM

TO: ~~ FRITZ AND BILL
FROM: MIKE EPSTEIN
DATE: JUNE 20, 1975

SUBJECT: GIANCANA aH

I expect that no one will write off the alleged Giancana murder as a

"third-rate homicide," and that. it will grow and grow and grow.. It is clearly

the most volatile media issue of the season.

“Given the barest outlines of what allegedly happened, and taking them
oh ;

at face value, we have a responsibility to take action under 18 U.S. Code,
: Section 1505:

Whoever ... by ... force ... endeavors to ... impede any
witness ... in connection with any inquiry or investigation
being had by ... any committee of either House ... or

. - Whoever ... by ... force ... obstructs, or impedes or

St endeavors to +++ obstruct, or impede ... the due and proper
: exercise of the: power of inquiry under which such inguiry

. or ‘investigation is being had by ... any committee of
either. House ...

Shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more
: ; than five years, or both.

“In short, if Giencane was a "witness" (which status he might have
achieved by mere location contacts made by staff) and he was killed to
prevent his éppearence; or indeed even if he wasn't yet a "witness" but
this was a "message" to all, witnesses to keep quiet (e.g. Roselli and Maheu), —
there is a violation of law which we might have the responsibility to investigate.
Beyond whet our responsibility is, it seems clear to me that most extreme

possibilities of what might actually have happened dictate that we come up

with a well-reasoned position and plan -- after careful, deliberate, intensive

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consideration of all avenués/of approach, pitfalls, suspected motives, etc..
. nay ‘

wey " .

Most important of all, it deans to me, is our acceptance of the fact that.
maybe we don't even have anyone on our staff with sufficient experience,
sophistication, background,. and investigative maturity to deal with this
situation. | . |

As a first step, I urgesyour decision to convene a planning session to
decide what the second step will be.

I can't emphasize enough the need for well-thought-out planning here.
Who knows where this will lead? And at a minimum, some months from now,
Senator Church may be asked,: "What did you do the day after you learned
that’ Giancena had been Killed?" °

My stream of consciousness on kinds of things to consider would
include: | What our public statement on this should or should not be,
security for other witnesses, imnediate contact with other key witnesses
(to reassure them), secrecy of witness lists and immunity applications,
secrecy of place, time and even fact of interview, meetings with Justice
organized crime section, Chicago strike force, local law enforcement people
in Oak Park and Tlinois, obtaining all FBI investigative reports (they're
in it per tonight's-Ster), getting background on all lew enforcement officials
in Illinois who will be involved. (whom do you trust?), is this a diversion
which we're being sucked into, how do we avoid that (hire someone just for
this), how do we show we care 50 other witnesses (known or unknown) won't

dry up, etc. etc. etc.

NOTE: - Mike can be reached efter 6:45 tonight at (802) 863-2652.

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MEMORANDUM:

TO: Mike Madigan

FROM: Ed Greissing wy

DATE: August 13, 1976 ree

SUBJECT: Mention of Carlos Marcello in the 4/23/76 transcript of
John Rosselli. ot

On April 23, 1976 during Mr. Rosselli's appearance before the
Schweiker-Hart Subcommittee, we':took the opportunity to question
him about any information he might possess regarding the New Orleans
Mafia Chieftan, Carlos Marcello... oy

Our interest in Marcello developed from 1})the allegation that
Marcello was tangentially involved with both Clay Shaw and David
‘Ferrie; the fact that Marcello was deported by Attorney General Robert
Kennedy and that the assassination of President Kennedy was a possible
retaliation, Bab]

In my telephone conversation with Jim Johnston, 8/13/76, he could
think of no other reasons why we questioned Rosselli about Marcello.
If you would like to talk to Jim about this matter, his telephone
number is 780-6203. mo

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MEMORANDUM

To: Files
From: Mike Madigan

- Date: June 23, 1975 7
Subj: Additional Roselli uestions

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i

Inquire when in the ‘discussions, between Roselli and the CIA

did any suggestion appear) with regard to both Che Guevera and

Rauol Castro, in addition ‘to the discussions’ involving Fidel only.

Query whether Rosell ‘as heard the term “ZRRIFLE" --- note

Helms to Harvey memorandum of 12 February 1962, giving approval for

use of unvouchered funds.

1.G. Report references first delivery of the pills in early
2
ey 1961. Second delivery of the pills in early 1962 -- inquire re:

fp Tf Roselli's date recollection.
my _ yf
Jake Esterline had ppfsession of the gigars already treated
fs
with poison in March eyfough August 1960/ in Florida. Esterline

apparently destroyed Ahem before he Left in June of 1961 -- Roselli' s

knowledge of sstorghe or the e cigars?

# operation to put in

hotel rom on trip?

py" April 1961 and Second Phase from April 1962 through February 1963.

et

LE ;

hk I.G. Report indicates First Phase from August 1960 through

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nspector General's Report states that Maheu was instructed

to tell Roselli that Maheu represented businesses ‘(Wall Street)

who had interests in Cuba’ and who. wanted to eliminate Castro and

were willing to pay $150,000.

Roselli -- Trafficante's gambling interests in Cuba -- interest
in killing Castro? an .
I.G. Report indicates “first meeting" to be 14 September 1960

in New York City, with Naheu, Roselli and O'Connell present.

1.G. Report indicates that Roselli introduced. Maheu to Giancana

and that Giancana was to. arrange contacts with syndicate elements

in Cuba -- meeting for Roselli/Maheu/Giancana meeting in Fountain-

7 . bleu Hotel in Florida week of 25 September 1960. I. G. Report
ae CE
indicates that Giancana fore Maheu that he had a‘man ‘(Trafficante)

to serve as a courier going back and forth between Miami and Cuba.

I.G. Report indicates. conversion in Roselli's presence wherein

Giancana tells Maheu that Giancana is opposed to the use of guns --

i
!

no chance of escape?

; _ Roselli named inside: man in Cuba as Juan Orta -- then in
Prime Minister's office in Havana. a

t
! ;
if. G. Report indicates Dr. Gunn's notation of delivery of

the: first batch of pills to be 10 February 1961? Roselli timing?

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I.G. Report indicates, that Roselli's man, Orta, had "easy
ue
ccess" to Castro, and that he was involved in a "rake-off on

too

gambling profits.” |

\ |
1.G. Report has Roselli giving the pills to reasscance, JO

rather than directly to the\Cuban? -

‘Did Harvey actu lly ta 1 Roselli to. cut off the project /V

slowly so as to avoi creat\ng hard feelings on the part of the

Cubans in the latter p t of \962?

~ 1G. Report in "second Phase" indicates Roselli telling
O'Connell that Trafficante knew ‘a man high up in the Cuban exile

venent who could take over the job from Orta. Report indicates

this man's name is Varona, and. that Trafficante probably knew
if

Varona in his efforts to: take over ga mbling once Castro was out.
. .

Does Roselli know Edward Moss and the Cellini's offer of money

to Varona to be used.against Castro?

1.G. Report indicates that Trafficant told Varona that he
(Trafficante) had clients who would pay big money to get rid of
Castro’-- Roselli's knowledge of this. -- time, frame March/April
SY, 1961 -- figures mentioned from various “witness s are (1) $50,000
(2) $25,000 (3) $10, 00 plus $1, 000 worth of commynications

equipment. . NOTE: O'Connell's testimony of ($50, 00 being taken

to Florida and put in a, safe deposit box to be pai C.0.D. upon

accomplishment of Castro mission.

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I.G. Report has Harvey taking over in February 1961 but only
of the "executive action capability. '" The Report indicates
15 November 1961 as date Harvey says Bissell told him to include
Cuba in ZRRIFLE program, and ‘to take over syndicate connection ---

Roselli! s knowledge. of either of these dates? NOTE: Are ZRRIFLE

and Castro assassination plans syhonynous? , 6,

va
I.G.. Report gives 8: ‘and 9 April 1962 in_New York. City as the
Se ,

meeting place for e first introduction of Harvey, O'Connell and

Roselli.

ele

where Roselli stayed -- dinner at the Elk Room -- drinks at

NOT

o*Connei1 feels that Harvey met Roselli prior

eting -- meeting took place at -- Savoy Plaza/Sa oy Hilton

“the Copacabana -- table: across from Phyllis MacGuire. with Dorothy
Kilgallen and Liberace performing -- seats changed so that Roselli

would not be seen by MacGuire -- Roselli's recollection? /
] _— _. June of 1963 Harvey, ieft for Rome.

April 18, 1962 -- Dr. Treichler's records showing delivery of
four. pills to "OC. "

September 1961, last casino in Havana closed.

fo \ 4 I.G. Report references Roselli's having a man known as "Maceo"
We ‘ r "Garcia - Gomez" ani."Goday". The report describes him as a

Cuban who spoke Italian -- Roselli's recollection? -- time frame?

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The 1.G. Revert bee ere 1962 as the time period for

}

with the rifles, etc. -- Roselli's

the delivery of the rental truck
recollection of what was inside? -> Rifles with telescopic sites
for assassination purposes? Comm ications equipment ---what type?
_ NOTE: . Roselli's recollection ing joint surveillance by Harvey

‘and Shackley in one car and O'Connell and Roselli in another car?.

May 1962 [.G. Report indicates that Roselli reports to Harvey
“that the pills are in Cuba -- references to all calls to Roselli
going to the Friars Club and Roselli's calls going to Harvey's home

number -- Roselli's recollection?

June 1962 -- 1.G. Report reference Roselli telling Harvey that
Varona had sent a three-man team into Cuba and that the pills were

"inside."

September 1962 -- I.G. Report references Roselli meeting Harvey |

in Miami on 7 and 11 September. Roselli tells Harvey that a second

three-man team was sent in by Varona -- a team of militia to infil-
trate Castro's bodyguard -- that the first team is already inside
=) and safe? --- Roselli's recollection of facts?

January 1963. I.G. Report reference Roselli telling Harvey
YY tha. "militia team" prepared for take-off -- and that they never did?

-- Roselli'ts recollection?

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June 1963. I.G. Repoft reference ‘last meeting between Roselli

and Harvey -- Roselli ot by Harvey at Dulles Airport -- Roselli

stayed at home of frien Of Harvey's -- Harvey's home closed up.

per overseas trip -- Harve ed by FBI having seen Roselli/Harvey

‘at restaurant -- FBI had-Roselli dgder surveillance -- Roselli's

recollection of facts?’ -- Time perhod?

I.G. Report indicates that Maheu pit in contact with Giancana

-O'Connell's Testimony

O'Connell's recollection is. that Orta's man would not go through
with it and that the pills were returned to O'Connell by Roselli.
0! Connell's recollection then is that the second plan was a call
from Roselli and Maheu indicating the use of. a chef. The pills

were sent down and. again returned when this plot failed.

O'Connell is unclear which of the aforementioned schemes took
place before the Bay of Pigs. He indicates, however, the use of

Varona to be after the Bay of Pigs.

O'Connell has the first introduction of Roselli and Harvey as

being in the Miami airport.

O'Connell's testimony is that he received a call from Maheu

who said that Giancana was upset about Phyllis MacGuire seeing

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for Giancana and that Giancana might "stop: helping” on the assassina-
tion plot if this tap was not placed. O'Connell checked with
Edwards and received the go-ahead. O'Connell indicates that

Maheu was authorized to pay for DuBois out of the month given him

on the assassination plan.

O'Connell states that: he recalls November 1960 as the time

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period of the delivery of the pills for Roselli through Trafficante?
O'Connell recollection that "chef" incident after Bay. of Pigs,

O'Connell states that Varona's price was $50,000 -- $10,000

worth of communications equipment in addition.

O'Connell introduced by Roselli to Varona as "Mr. Olds."

Harvey Testimony

Harvey places the fall of 1961 as the time period in which

ZRRIFLE was to be applied to Cuba.

Harvey reference to pressure from the Kennedys to topple the
Castro regime clandestinely and not by 1 means of any attack.

Roselli's hearsay knowledge of this?

Harvey states that he recalls firearms -in the truck, possibly

"sniper-scope rifles."

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Harvey states that es ‘soon ‘as the missile crisis was over,
i.e. late 1962, he indicated to Roselli that he wanted the
project cut off, although’ gradually so as not to create hard

feelings.

Roselli! s knowledge of Greenspw 's safe -- break-in in 1971 --

1967 - meeting between Greenspu ; Garr3 on, Roselli, etc.?

1.G. Report reference to. "a ation" in early 1960

efforts: -- Roselli hearsay kn

E. B. Williams’ knowledge re MaheuXRoselli/Greenspun meetings

in 1967?
Roselli knowledge re ‘Angell Luis Castillo (U.S. in 1968)

and Jerry Henning (training of Cuban teams)?

Roselli knowledge of explosives alyng with guns valued at

$5,000 -- U-Haul. truck delivery -- surveyllance by Chief JMWAVE?

Late 1962- -Early 1963: -- Roselli knowledge of skin-diving suit

implemented with poisons?

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Dear Mr. Attorney 6 General:

‘I am weiting you today on behalf of. the Select -

Committee about the recent death of Samuel Giancana. As
you are no doubt aware , his name “has been raised in the
context of allegations concerning the Central Intelligence
Agency's possible involvement in so-called political
assassinations.

Based on information available to the Committee,
it was obvious that’ ‘he might be knowledgeable about the
political assassination matter. Although Mr. Giancana
had not actually been Subpoenaed to testify by this Com-

2? mittee, he had been “approached by members of the staff
for a possible interview. Since this might involve viola-
tion of federal statutes pertaining to obstruction of a
Congressional Committee investigation, the Select Committee
is requesting that you ‘instruct the Federal Bureau of
Investigation to keep it fully informed of all information
“coming to the Bureau's attention pertaining to Mr. Giancana's

death. In making this request, the Committee is not gonced=

Ne heen

/ ing. its. right to conduct its own investigation of this
matters However , it is acting in the spirit of cooperation
on a question of mutual concern to the Executive and Legis-

lative Branches ‘of government.

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safety of several other possible witnesses. Therefore,
we request 24-hour-a-day protection by the United States
Marshall Service for the following witnesses which the
Committee has subpoenaed, intends to subpoena, has inter-

viewed, or intends to interview:

(Alternative paragraph:

. The Committee is also concerned about the
‘safety of several other possible witnesses. We would
like to discuss with members of your staff the necessity
for special arrangements by the United States Marshall
Service to ensure the safety of witnesses who have. or
might have to contact with the Committee pertaining to

these matters.)

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520) ORGANIZED CRIME AND ILLICIT TRAFFIC IN NARCOTICS

Mr. Brown. Yes, sir.

The Ciaran, Very well. And then Sergeant de la Liana, will
you identify yourself, please, sir?

Mr. ve ua Liana. Jack de la Llana, Tampa Police Department. I
have been with the police department for 9 years, and attached to the
homicide division for 4 years before starting the criminal intelligence |
‘unit of the Tampa Police Department.

The Crrainman. Have you had previous police service?

Mr. pe ta Luana. My first experience was 9 years ago, when I -
started first with the force.

The Cuarraan. Chief Brown, do you have a statement, a prepared
statement?

Mr. Brown. Yes, I do, Senator. :

The Crramaan. Thave a copy of it before me, and I see it has several
pages. Do you wish to read all of it?

Mr. Brown. Yes, sir; I would like to read it to the committee,

The Ciramman. Very well, then, you may proceed.

Mr, Brown. Mr. Chairman and members of the subcommittee, I am
: Neil G. Brown, chief of the Police Department of the city of Tampa, .
Fila.

I have been a member of the Tampa Police Department for the past

16 years, and I have been chief of the department for the past 4 years,
Prior to my appointment as chief, I served as inspector of detectives.
I am a graduate of the National Police Academy of the Federal
Burcau of Investigation, and a member of the Tampa Bay Area Chiefs
of Police Association and of the International Association of Chiefs
of Police.

With me here today is Sgt. Jack de la Liana who, at my direction,
formed our department’s first criminal intelligence unit in February
of 1962, and has been its director since that time. Sergeant de la -
Llana also holds the important post of chairman of the Florida In- a
telligence Unit, a statewide agency which coordinates information :
amongst intelligence units in cities throughout the State of Florida.

In addition to Sergeant de la Liana, whose diligent work and knowl: |
edge of criminal operations has provided much of the foundation for
my statement to you, I feel fortunate in being accompanied also by .
Sgt. William Branch of the intelligence division of the Orlando Poliea -
Department. Sergeant Branch is presently attending the National -
Academy of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He has been 8 ,
member of the Orlando Police Department since 1951, and a detective
sergeant since 1956. He is particularly familiar with organized gam-
bling operations in the central Florida area, and I believe his presenta
tion of that situation will be of material value to this inquiry. :

I feel privileged to be able to testify before you today. I believe --
that the facts I can present here about organized crime operations in <
Tampa will help you and the American public realize the seriousness. .
of this problem, and our Nation’s emergent need for further Federal ;
legislation to combat an evil that has clearly expanded beyond the
powers of municipal law enforcement to contain, suppress and elimi.
nate it.

ampa has a large and respected Italj ign, who are con

sidered in alf respects to be an asset to our community. Unfor,
tunately, a small percentage of this group of citizens have achieved

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a notoriety greatly disproportionate to their numbers, because of their
continuous activity in criminal and racketeering enterprises. The
people of our city refer to this group as “the Sicilian underworld” or

‘the Mafia.”

Our growing concern with this criminal group was crystallized in
1956 when a [fillsborough County grand jury was empaneled in
Tampa to investigate and determine the truth of allegations that
the Mafia was then operating in Tampa. The pertinent part of that
grand jury’s report stated: ;

* * * there are some individuals who believe that a Mafia or Black Hand
exists and operates in this community, but they are in the minority. * * *
‘The evidence presented, the volume of written material examined, aud wit-
nesses interviews point to the existence in this community of an organized crime
clement whose methods of operation are similar to the pattern of the Sicilian
Mafia as we understand it. * * *

The Cuarran. Chief, let me ask you, prior to this development,
before the grand jury, before the grand jury made this finding, were
you the law enforcement officials or in the police department?

Mr. Brown. No, sir.

The Cuarrman. Were you suspicious that such an organization
existed in your city ?

Mr. Brown, Oh, yes; law enforcement has been aware that this has
been there.

The Crairman. There was something, you felt confident, but you
were unable to bring it out in concrete proof; is that correct?

Mr. Brown. That is correct. :

The Curarrmman. So you had been trying to combat it without being
able to get it out in the open? ; ;

Mr. Brown. That is exactly right.

The Cuamman. Allright. Proceed.

Mr. Brown (reading) :

* * * our records indicate that the vast majority of our unsolved crimes stem
from underworld activity involving persons of Sicilian or Italian ancestry * * *

The Cuairman. We had some startling information here the other
day from the Chicago chief of police with respect to some 976
murders, gangland style, that had been committed over a period of
years, and only 2 of them had been solved. ‘That is, officially solved by
court determination or court action.

Mr. Brown. That is typical.

The Cratrman. What is the ratio in your community, if you can
give us some idea about it?

Mr. Brown. I will bring that out in my statement, but it is just
like Chicago.

. The Cuamman. Something along that line?

Mr. Brown. Yes, sir.

The Crratrman. That, struck me as one of the most frightening
developments of information that I have heard regarding crime. I
just. couldn’t believe that 976 murders, and apparently just murder
in the first-degree fashion, could be comunitted in an area like Met-
ropolitan Chicago over a period of years, and only 2 of them could
be solved. It thoroughly demonstrates to me the great menace and
the danger of organized mobs committing crime. ~

You say: “Well, they probably killed each other pretty much.”
That may be true, but {hey kill each other becanse of the extortionate

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operations that they are engaged in, to the detriment of the public
at large, and to the detriment of innocent people who can’t help
themselves. It focuses and emphasizes how serious this menace is,

Very well, you may proceed,

Mr. Brown. Notwithstanding these findings, the grand jury con-
cluded that there was no national or local Mafia in Tampa. I would
like to submit ag exhibit 1 a certitied copy of the report of the grand
jury dated March 30. 1956.

The Cuairnuax. Very well, this report of the grand jury will be
received and it may be made exhibit No. 44, and exhibit 1 to this
witness’ testimony. ;

I may later direct it be printed, but as of now we will just let it be
filed as an exhibit for reference.

(The document referred to was marked “Exhibit No. 44” for refer-
ence, and may be found in the files of the subeommittee.)

Mr. Brown. It seems likely to me that the grand jury failed to
acknowledge without qualification the presence of the Mafia in Tampa
because it sought a pattern of Mafia operations similar to the historical
Sicilian tradition of primitive and direct extortion, rather than the
sophisticated and polished control of rackets that now characterize
that organization. ;

The CuamrMan. I take it from that last statement that you feel
that they have considerably improved their technique.

Mr. Brown. Very much so.

The Cirairman. Of crime operations.

Mr. Brown. Very much. .

Senator Musxir, May I ask a question, Chief, there?

‘As L understand what you have just testified relative te the grand

jury’s report, they acknowledged that there was some evidence of the
existence of Sicilian Mafia in the community, but apparently felt
that evidence was not conclusive; is that a correct suminary ?

Mr. Brown. That.is correct; yes, Senator. The Tampa Police De-
partment, however, has long been aware that. many criminals in our
area have local reputations as Maliosi. My staff and I have made a
careful evaluation of those reputations, based upon personal know!-
edge, criminal records, surveillance reports, personal histories, familial
relationships, statistical analyses, reports from confidential inform-
ants, information from Federal and local Jaw-enforcement agencies,
and other customary police intelligence sources. ;

Tt is our considered conclusion that the Mafia exists in Tampa, that
it controls most Wegal gambling in Tampa and central Florida, and
that its members have interstate and international ties to other Mafia
groups. ,

The organization of the Mafia in the Tampa area is best understood
from a chart we have formulated which I submit to this subcommittee”
asourexhibit No.2. ~

Senator Musxin. Before we get to that, Chief, may I ask another
question? The grand jury to which you referred sat in 1956, am I
correct ? .

Mr. Brown. That is correct, sir.

Senator Musxtr. That is 7 years ago. Do you think you have
accumulated additional evidence as to the existence of the Mafia in
Tampa which would justify a new reference to the grand jury?

Mr. Brown. Yes; I believe so. :

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Senator Muskie. Are you planning that?

Mr. Brown. Yes, sir.

The Ciraimaan. Very well. This chart may be received as exhibit
No. 45 and we will direct it be printed in the record if it can be, as
far as it can be. The title of it is “Lhe Mafia Organization in the
Tampa, Fla., Area.”

(The document referred to was marked “Exhibit No. 45” for refer-
ence and faces this page.)
© The Cuamman. Would you say the operations of this organized

group are not confined just to the city limits of Tampa, but they are
in the area ?

Mr. Brown. By all means; the entire area.

The Cuamman. All right. This chart is now a part of the record
and, if you wish to comment about it, we will proceed with your state-
ment.

Mr. Brown. The chart is keyed to show only the criminal, business,
and familial intervelationships and activities of the persons named,
although other criteria figured in our categorization of these persons.
Of course, this chart cannot be considered as a definitive “table of
organization” of the Tampa Mafia, because it is but a simplified repre-
sentation of an organization that is in a constant state of flux, and about
which we know we still have many things to learn.

However, I believe it is completely accurate in showing that Santo
Traflicante is the boss of this criminal group. Indeed, it is to Santo
Traflicante that Tampa owes the dubious distinction of having been
represented at the notorious crime convention at Apalachin, N.Y,
in November 1957.

The Cuairuan. I notice you designate or refer to this group as the
Mafia. Would you say that it is the same group that has been referred
to by the famous witness, Joe Valachii?

Mr. Brown. Yes, sir; itis, ;

The Crranatan. Whether he calls it Cosa Nostra or the Mafia malkes
no difference. This is the organized crime group to which you re-
ferred? ;

Mr. Brown. That is correct, Senator; this is the group.

Senator Musxim. May Task a question there?

Under this group, there is another group which you describe a
honmember asscciates and employees. Is that intended to suggest
that the people who are so described know nothing about the identity
of their employers and the organization of which they are a part?

Mr. Brown. Senator, that is a part of the insulation of the group.
They have many employees, and as we go into the statement, to show
how in this gambling operation the seller is non-Sicilian in most
eases, and he reports to another member up the ladder, and so on up.
Many of these people are nonmembers of the Mafia as it is.

Senator Musiiz. Do they know they are engaged in criminal ac-
tivities?

Mr: Brown. Yes, sir. 1

Senator Musxtz. They know they are a part of a criminal orga-

i. Nization 2

Mr. Brown. Yes, sir.
Senator Musxin. But they are not members?
Mr. Brown. That is correct.

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Senator Musxip. What do they need to do to become members in
the Tampa area? :
Mr. Brown. Well, | think I can clarify that later on in the state-
ment, Senator. ,
The Ciaran. All right; you may proceed.
Mr. Brown. Santo Traflieante, Jr., was born in Tampa on November
14, 19 He was one of five brothers. He maintains residence today
mit eunn and in Miami. Tle previously lived in Tlavana, Cuba,
where he owned and operated gambling casi er the Battista
regime. When Fidel Castro‘took over, ‘Traflicante’s gam
“TTT re stopped. Ile was expelled from Cuba andr
the United States. He inherited the control of the ffumbers Tek
in central Florida which his father, Santo TrafficantéSry-ehe-drec
in 1954, and he continues to head this operation,
Testimony in the "fami of the Senate Select Committee

on Improper Activities m the Labor or Management Field identified

Santo Trafticante, Jr. in (nenanelnbiodaibat be sansesiouccuupbling
casino in Havang. That testimony stated that Traflicante took over
{SO SOTeT fron: the Mannarino brothers in Pittsburgh, Pa.
Gabriel Mannarino was a fellow delegate with Santo Trafficante, Jr.,
to the Apalachin crime convention in 1957.

Additional testimony named Traflicante, Jr, as the key figure in
the Mafia in Tampa, stating, as the Tampa police had long known,
that he succeeded his father as the major racketeer in the city.

Other information substantiated by our files reveals that Trafficante
is an associate of such notorious criminals as ioe Lansky, Joseph

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The Crrarra.

When Joseph Profaci’s daughter Carmella married Anthony Tocco,
con of Detroit mobster William “Black Bill” Tocco, in Brooklyn on
June 4, 1955, one of the guests at the reception in the Hotel Com-
inodore in New York was Santo Trailicante, Jr. Among those who
also attended were 13 other persons who Inter attended the Apalachin

‘ conference, as well as other notorious Mafia figures, such as Frank P No. 46 for refere
JLivorsi, Thomas and John Dioguardi, Tony and Albert “Anastasia, - (Document re
and Thomas “Three Finger Brown” Lucchese. ; may be found in

There have been at least two known attempts on the life ef Santo ‘The Crrarata
Trailicante: On January 2, 1953, he was shotgunned in a car on the that you have m:
streets of Tampa, receiving wounds in the arm. Later, in Cuba, four Mr. pena Lina?
American mobsters who intended to kill Traflicante were told by : The Crarrata
Cuban police that they would have to do it on American soil. ; record, either at

Trafficante has been arrested in Tampa several times for investiga- * . Statement of the -
tion, because of our knowledge that he was deeply involved in gam- (The statemen:
‘bling, even though we lave not yet been able to obtain the quantum of 2
proof necessary to a successful prosecution. THe has also been picked’ 9 .
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ton about him whie

Nunez, Angelo Giglio, and Joe Antinori.
Traflicante was a suspect in the Albert Anastasia murder on Oc-
tober 25, 1957, in New York because he had appeared in New York
just before the murder. He was considered a likely suspect becaus
there had been reports that Anastasia was then attempting to move

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“1a members in

on in the state-

on November
residence today
(favana, Cuba,
the Battista
ambling opera-
nd returned to
numbers racket
», Sr., who died

tect Committee
field identified
Souei gambling
‘cante took over
Pittsburgh, Pa.
‘Trafficante, Jr.,

ae key figure in
ad long known,
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that Trafficante
Lansky, Joseph
-tassi, Sam Man-
‘nown as Staten
ider Trafficante,

Anthony Tocco,
in Brooklyn on
the Hotel Com-
mong those who
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ie life of Santo
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te were told by
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nvolved in gam-
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also been picked
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. suspect because
smpting to move

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in on Trafiicante’s gambling operations in Cuba. Trafficante, using
the alias “B. Ifill,” stayed with Anastasia in the latter’s hotel suite,
on the night of October 24, 1957, and moved out approximately 1 hour
after Anastasia’s murder ina nearby barber shop.

The Department's evaluation of ‘Traflicante as the boss of the Mafia
organization in Tampa was confirmed, of course, by the positive identi-
fication of the “Louis Santos of Havana, Cuba,” apprehended at the
Apalachin conference in November of 1957, as Santo Traflicante, Jr.,
of Tampa, Fla.

Furthermore, we have witnessed and docnmented many visits of
out-of-town racketeers with Santo Trafficante and his fellow hoodlums
of the Tampa area. These visitors give further indications that Traf-
ficante. is associated with Mafia members in other cities. For example,
Louis Coticchia of Chicago, also known as Lou Brady, has been fre-
quently seen visiting Traflicante and on one occasion they were seen
bourding.a plane together, heading for Miami.

Other known outside racketeers who have visited in Tampa with
Traflicante gang members are John Joseph Vitale, Salvatore Lopic-
cole.and Anthony Giardano, all known racketeers from St. Louis, Mo.

Mr. O’Donneut. I think at the present time, in interest of conti-
nuity, so that the record will read properly, Sergeant de la Llana has
a statement with regard to a courier operation within the Mafia, In
the interest of time, I am not going to ask him to read it, but I would
like to have it introduced in the record.

Do yowhave that? :

Mr. pera Liana. Yes, Ido.

Mr. O’Dornewt. How many pages does it consist of ?

Mr. peta Luana. Itis five pages. ;

The Cramman. Give a better description of it and tell us what it is.

Mr. ve va Luana. It is with reference to Louis Coticchia, alias Lou
Brady, and his visits to Tampa on various occasions, which first came
to our attention on April 18, 1962. This subject has a long criminal
record, Ihave an FBI record which I will also submit. into evidence.

The Curamatan. Let the FBI record be received and made exhibit
No. 46 for reference.

(Document. referred to marked “Exhibit No. 46” for reference and
may be found in the files of the subcommittee.)

The Cuainman. Now, your statement, is that a summary statement ~
? 3 y

that you have made and prepared for the record?

Mr, pews Luana. Yes, sir.

The Cratraran. Very well, it may be received and printed in the
record, either at this point or immediately following the prepared
statement of the witness now testifying.

(The statement referred to follows:)

STATEMENY or Sat. JACK DE LA LLANA

One of the clear ties of the Trafficante organization with other criminal groups
is reflected by the contacts with Trafficante made by a man who appears to act
as a courier for the Mafia. Louis Coticchia, alias Lou Brady, FBI No. 1427493,
first came to the attention of our Department on April 13, 1962, when we ob-
served him, in Tampa, in the company of Augustine Primo Lazzara and Vrank
Diecidue, two of the men on our Mafia chart. Because of this and other con-
tacts made by Coticchia, our intelligent unit developed the following informa-
tion about him which I think ig of interest to this committee in giving a profile

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of a hoodlum who fs entrusted by the Mafia to act as a courier for them between
the virious groups.

Coticehia was born on February 25, 1920, in Cincinnati, Obio. When he was
arrested a couple of yenrs ago, he gave as bis occupation “tidustrial financier.”
He is presently reported to be interested in the operation of a company offering
wired music in the Chicago area known as Symphonaire Suund Systems, Ine.

Ilis criminal record shows that be was first arrested in 1936 in Ohio for
robbéry. In 1937 he was arrested in Miami, Fla. for investigation of a “shake-
down.” He was held for 4 days and released without charges. He was arrested
again in Hot Springs. Ark., in 1038 for investigation and released with the under-
standing that he would feave the city. : ,

In 1938, in Cleveland, Coticchia was arrested and charged with assault with
intent to commit rape. He was convicted and received 1 to 15 years, of which
he served 4 years, being released in 1941. Ile was arrested in 1942 in Los Angeles,
Calif., on a warrant issued in Baltimore for grand theft. He was tried in Balti-

“more for receiving stolen goods and received 5 years in prison.

Coticchia was again arrested in Dallas, Tex., in 1961, by the U.S. marshals
for violation of and for conspiring to violate the Federal Securities and Exchange
Act of 1933, which case is still pending in the Southern District Court of New
York. His last arrest known to us was on January 4, 1963, when he was ar-
rested in Tampa for investigation of grand larceny. He was released due to
insufficient evidence,

Coticchia worked as a “pit boss” in gambling casinos in Las Vegas, Nev., and
Yavana, Cuba. He was involved in a scandal in 1960 in which mobsters at-
tempted to take over a nationwide bail bond business,

Cotiechia has been in and out of Tampa since our first observation of him and
on every occasion he is in direct contact with Trafficante and Diecidue. On
December 31, 1962, he purchased a new automobile in Tampa, paying the dealer

3,025.95 in cash, He then registered the car under the name of Jane Campbell.
He remained in Tampa several days and was in constant contact with Trafficante

and Diecidue.

On January 4, 1963, Coticchia was arrested in Tampa on suspicion of grand
larceny and at the time of his arrest he had $1,775 in cash on his person. He
had papers on him that showed he had resided previously at the Aloha Motel in
Miami under the name Luiz Paulino Bailey from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He
also had a paper with a list of gambling equipment and the name “Empress
Lines, Ltd., Nassau—via Wappen Vou Hamburg—German boat loading pier
No. 3." . .

An investigation revealed this equipment had been shipped airfreight from
Tas Vegas to Nassau and placed ina German vessel, the Wappen Von Hamburg,
which sails between Nassau and Miami, This equipment included 50 one-arm
bandits, or slot machines, and was valued in excess of $65,000.. The information
received was that this vessel was to travel between Miami and Nassau a3 @
floating gambling casino. :

After Cotiechia’s arrest in Tampa, the telephone calls were checked at the
motel. It showed that he had made several calls to Trafficante, Diecidue, and
other associates of Trafficante. Ie had also made a long-distance call to Sonny’s
Restaurant in Miami Beach, which is owned by Thomas Altamura, FBI No.
511563, 1 Mafia member and another associate of Santo Trafficante, Jr.

{ would like to submit for the record Coticchia’s FBI record, and a photograph
of him taken by my department when he was arrested in Tampa on January
4, 1963.

Another example of the Trafficante group’s connections with Mafia figures in

other parts of the Nation is: John Joseph Vitale, FBI No. 793259, of St. Lonis,
Mo. Vitale is well known to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, and
is reputed to be the Matia leader in that area. ile has a record of 13 arrests
and a conviction for violating the Harrison Narcotics Act for which he received
a sentence of 7 years’ imprisonment. He has been arrested as a fence and is
believed to deal in anything in which there is a large percentage of profit.
_ Police authorities consider him among the most dangerous of Mafia principals
jn the St, Louis area, and he is known to have underworld counections through-
out the country. He appeared twice before the Senate Rackets Committee
(August 19, 1958, and February 11, 1950) and each tiine refused to answer any
questions, invoking the fifth amendment.

On April 17, 1963, Vitale flew from St. Louls to Tampa, using the name “Jack
Howard.” He visited the Diecidues for 4 hours and then flew back to St. Louls

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nrier for them between

i, Ohio. When he was
4 "“industrial financier.
rof a company offering
Suund Systems, fc.
ain 1936 in Ohio for
vestigation of a “shake-
irges, He was arrested
~eteased with the under-

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1 to 15 years, of which
din 1942 in Los Angeles,
[le was tried in Baiti-
iy the U.S. marshals
securities and Exchange
4 District Court of New
1963, when he was ar-
‘Ile was released due to

: in Las Vegas, Nev., and
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. cash on his person. He
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he Wappen Von Hamburg.
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sTraficante, Jr.

‘record. and a photograph
ted in Tampa on January

i ith Mafia figures in
AL No. 793259, of St, Lonis,
‘an Police Department, and
-hias a record of 13 arrests
x Act for which he received

atrested as a fence and is.

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operons of Mafia principals
“world connections through-
Senate Rackets Committee
time refused to answer any

“Jack
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(then flew back to St, Louls

, the Mafia group on a nutioual-basis,

ORGANIZED CRIME AND ILLICIT TRAFFIC LN NARCOTICS 527

using the same alias. We alerted the St, Louis police and upon Vitale’s arrival
there, he was interviewed by detectives of that city. He declared that he liad

traveled to Tampa to settle a debt of the Lombardo Produce Co., of St. Louis,
Mo. to the Diecidue Bros. of ‘Tampa.

To me it does not seem probable that Vitale would go to the expense and
trouble of flying to Tampa and returning the same day in order to settle a debt
between two produce companies with which he has no known connections. More
significantly, his use of an alias to run this errand, too, points out his own
doubts that he was engaged in a legitimate errand. ,

These two examples, Coticchia’s and Vitale’s, indicate to us the interstate
‘connections of the ‘Traflicante organization, aud point up the need for attacking

Mr. O'Donneny, All right, we will continue,

Mr. Brown. Some of ‘Traflicante’s men shown here on our chart
gave sworn testimony before the Hillsborough County solicitor in
1953 concerning gambling in Tampa. They admitted that they had
long been engaged in illegal gambling activities. Lhey were forced
to testify or face jail tevims for contempt of court, because they had
been granted immunity from prosecution for such erimes. Among
those who testified were Frank Diecidue, Augustine Primo Lazzara,
Nick Scaglione, Henry Traflicante, and James C, Longo.

Mr. O'Donnewn. Are any of these individuals on the chart that
you have introduced as exhibit 2?

Mr. Brown. Yes, they are all on the chart.

Mr. O’Downenn. Thank you.

Mr, Brown. Santo Traflicante has himself been caught wp in.a typi-
cal Mafia technique of seeking to preserve and protect-its illegal enter-
prises by the corruption of law enforcement snd other public officials,
This incident substantiated our intelligence that ‘Tratlieante was
deeply involved in gambling operations, und it showed that he liad
major interests in gambling outside the city of Tampa.

The case was initiated in 1954 by a veteran St. Petersburg police
oflicer, Detective Sgt. Harry Dietrich, who had obtained evidence of me
the operation of ‘the ‘Traflicante bolita ring. Bolita is a numbers _
racket of considerable importance in Florida, involving weekly payoffs J
based upon information taken from radio reports of the weekly Cuban
lottery.

An attempt was made to bribe Sergeant Dietrich to ignore the
operation of the ring. He was given a new car, a television set, some
suits of clothing, and cash. Sergeant Dietrich accepted the bribes
with the full knowledge and orders of_his superiors, to whom he
had immediately reported the dit attenipt.

As a result of his work, & “ and his brother Ilenr
were arrested. Both were ch ribery and were convicted.

The Crairmanx. Whengtt

Mr. Brown, :

The Citaimman.
he is the boss?

Mr. Brown. Yes, sir.

E eceived a pris

ars. Santo Trafficante’s con-
viction was Ta Loic st. His brother served his
term and was recently released. Both brothers were ‘subsequently |
indicted by the Federal Government for tax law violations,

We know of no legitimate businesses that are owned or controlled
by Santo Traflicante. Io owns no real estate, nor any other property,

i

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real or personal, TGs_house, automobile lis thor possessions
are held in the namesololiers, Plowever, we do not believe him to be
destitute, for his'co Ttinbling in the central Florida area alone
must net him huge amounts of money. Ilis operations there show,

also, a characteristic Matia method of utilizing non-Sicilian associates -

where it serves its crininal objectives.

Sergeant Branch, who has for the past 7 years been investigating
gambling and other organized criminal activities in the Orlando area,
Will describe the Matia’s control, through the Uarlan Blackburn

“organization, of lottery operations in central Florida, We know of
no legitimate businesses (hat are owned.

The Chatman. Sergeant Branch is here with you?

Mr. Brown. Yes, sir.

On the lower right-hand side of our chart we have depicted that
group of Traflicante associates,

Sergeant Branch will here testify about the Blackburn group.

The Crtairasctan. Do you solemnly swear that the testimony you are
about to give hefore this subcommittee will be the truth, the whole
erath, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?

Mr. Brawci. I do.

TESTIMONY OF WILLIAM BRANCH

Tho Caramstan. Will you identify yourself for the record?

Mr. Brancu. I ania sergeant with the Orlando Police Department
attached to the intelligence division, aud I have been with them since
1951. L have been working in this type of work since 1956, with the
cooperation of the Federal and State agencies in our area.

The Crraimman, Do you havea prepared statement?

Mr. Brancnu. Yes, sir, I clo.

Tho Crraman. It appears to be four or five pages. Do you wish
to read it? ; ‘

Mr. Branou. Yes, sir.

Tn the central Florida avea the main gambling activity is known as
bolita or Cuba.” Bgbituds.a, numbers lottegy where the winning num-
ber is drawn daily. Cuba isa numbers lottery where the winning
number is drawn weekly... Bettors can place bets on any number from
1 to 100 and receive a 60-to-1 return if they win. The Cuba winning
number is the last two digits from the Cuban national lottery number
which is five digits and is broadeast over a Havana radio station each
Saturday shortly after 2 p.m.

The public is contacted by “peddlers” or “sellers,” who receive.a com-
mission of 15 percent of their sales. “Pickup” men, who take the bets
“from the sellers to the “checkup houses,” receive 20 percent of what
they collect. Imployees such as checkup men, adding machine opera-
tors, and supervisors above this position usually receive salaries for
their duties.

Lottery operations in central Florida prior to 1948 were dominated
first by Charlie Wall of Tampa and then by Sam Warren, an Orlando
native. In that year Harlan Blackburn, FBI No. 1026922, a con-

victed felon, came into Orlando and began taking over bolita and

Cuba gambling.
This man ison the chart also.

ducting the lottery.

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ORGANIZEL

Blackburn was
he was convicted
Served 414 years
the Florida State
March 1956 for oj
a 5-year prison sei

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and Elvin Carroll.
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other crimes,
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committee’s record,
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reference only.
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have secured from «
from witnesses tha
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Blackburn was born in Sand Lake, Fla. on April 13,1919. In 1935,
he was convicted of forging a U.S, Government check, for which he
served 4% years in prison. In 1943, he was sentenced to 9 years in
the Florida State prison for cattle theft, He was again arrested in

March 1956 for operating a lottery in Polk County, Fla., and received
a 5-year prison Sentence, but was released in 1959,
enator Musiin, Did you say Mr. Blackburn was on the chart?

Mr. Brancrt. Yes, sir. He is listed in the lower right-hand corner,

Senator Musxie, It is not on this chart?

Mr. Branen, No, sir; noton that one.

Senator Musxrr, Blackburn is not a member of the M.

Mr. Branen. He is a subordinate that works under t]
yes, sir.

The Cuatmatan. Is he the same as Sam Warren 2

Mr. Branon. No, sir; heisnot. Sam Warren is dead,

He was then incarcerated for 60 days in Polk County for an earlier
conviction of conspiracy to violate the lottery laws of Florida. He
was Most recently arrested on N ovember 5, 1962, for failure to buy a
Federal wagering tax stamp. He is presently out on bail awaiting
trial.

Blackburn supervises the five lottery bankers who control central
Florida gambling. These bankers are Rudy Mach. Joe Wheeler, Clyde
F. Lee, Cecil Merritt, and.Ralph Strawder. . Mach has in his operation
Don Mach, Dan Fussell, Buddy Parron, Glen Brechen, Tommy Berry,
and Clifford Bell ; Joe Wheeler has Max Reid, Mary Carden, and Phil
Riffe; Clyde F. Lee has Jesse Toyner, Vasco Joyner, Mathew Smith,
Macon Tribue, Julia Ciphon, Hoy Anderson, and Katherine Brad-
shaw}; Cecil Merritt has Clayton Thomas, Sonny Brown, and George

olomon; and Relph Steawder has Benny White, Willian Harrell,
and Elvin Carroll, .

With the exception of Carden, Riffe, Harrell, Whi

allof these persons have criminal records and

afia, as such?
heir direction ;

te, and Ciphon,
arrests for gambling and

Thave here copies of their FBI records and submit them for the sub-
committee’s record, .

he Curarraran, They may be received in bulk as exhibit No. 47 for
reference only. ;
- (The documents re ferred to were marked “Exhibit No. 47 for ref-
trence and may be found jn the files of the subcommittee. )

Mr, Brawnetr. These five exceptions have been connected with this
operation for a number of years, however, and their names and amounts
a gross and net collections Appear in much of the evidence that we
have secured from checkup houses. We have also sworn testimony

m witnesses that these persons have been engaged in illegal

q @nbling.

Senator Musxte, What is the size of their take?

Mr. Branon. T have that further along in my statement, sir,

The lottery operation of the Blackburn group extends from Orange

‘ounty into all of central Florida and into the southern State of
rela.

“From 1948 until the latter part of 1953, our department established
mst Santo Trafficante, Jr., and his brother, Henry, personally were

faiting Orlando and supervising the checkup houses that were con-
ing the lottery. , ' ; ne OTE

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It has also been obvious to us that the Trafficante organization has
controlled the Blackburn operation for at Jeast the last 10 years.
Fyrom our examination of seized records, and from the fact that in
all raids on the checkup houses we have arrested persons having
close family ties with the Traflicante organization who were acting
as auditors for his interests. In addition, there has been heavy tele-
phone toll traffic between the Traficantes in Tampa and the Blackburn
group in Orlando.

When Blackburn was arrested in 1953, a memorandum was found
containing telephone numbers of Augustine Primo Lazzara, Salva-
tore J. Lorenzo, J. M. Caccintore—uncle of Santo Trafficante, Je —and
Santo Traficante, Jr., and of the Nebraska and Flamingo Bars, both
owned by the Trafficante family.

Tn 1987 a search of a gambling house in Orange County by a State
officer, with the assistance of the Orlando Policé, resulted in the
arrest of several persons. One of these was Lorenzo and another per-
son by the name of Leto, from Tampa. They beth gave sworn state-
ments at that time to the county solicitor that they were working for
Santo Trafficante, Jr.

In November 1961, another raid was conducted by agents of the
Internal Revenue Service in conjunction with the Orlando Police
Department on a house in Orange County. There were six persons
arrested, and among those were ‘Armando. Rios and Sam Cacciatore.
These two were cousins of Santo Traflicante, Jr.

Tn July 1963, a raid on a gambling house in Sanford, Fla., by the
TRS agents, with the assistance of the Orlando Police Department,
established that it was another operation of Harlan Blackburn’s,
supervised by Clyde Lee. Inthe records seized there was the phone
number of ‘Traflicante’s cousin, John Favata Cacciatore, and the
phone number of the printing establishment employing Stefano
Seaglione, who is also on the chart.

During the past 12 years that we know of at least three murders
that have been due to fights for control of lottery operations in the
Orlando area. ;

The fantastic amount of moncy taken in by these lottery operations
has been repeatedly established by our raids of these gambling houses.
Yor example, the raid in 1957 in Orange County, where Frank Ferreri
and Sam Lorenzo were arrested, disclosed that the house was doing
a gross business of $100,000 per weelk.

Senator Musnie. What were they paying out?

Mr. Branoir. The profit on this operation runs about 50 percent.

The November 1961 raid in Orange County where Armando Rios
and Sam Cacciatore, cousins of Santo Traflicante, were arrested re-
vealed that operation was doing a conservatively estimated gross of
$160,000 per weekk.

The Ciaran. With the same ratio of half applying there?

Mr. Brancn. Yes, sir.

Senator Musxir. When you say “net profit,” this means after
deductions of the commission which totaled 35 percent?

Mr. Brancit. Yes, sir. ‘

Senator Musure. And the prizes.

Mr. Brancir. Yes, sir. ;

The commission and also the prizes and what other operating ex
penses they may have such as automobiles, rent, telephone bills.

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The latest raid, in
$250,000 per week.

Irom those figures

The Cuarraan, Where was that raid?

Mr. Brancu. That was in Sanford, Fla., just 17 miles north of
Orlando. These figures are established by the Internal Revenue agents
and auditors. - ;

From these figures, it is easy to see why the Mafia has moved so
heavily into lottery gambling in central Florida and why gambling
revenues are universally acknowledged to be the “lifeblood” of orga-
nized -crime. ;

Any additional legislation that this subcommittee can promote to
further restrict and inhibit gambling will, in our opinion, be a sub-
stantial blow to organized crime,

Senator Musxts. Did they actually pay off on those lotteries or
was it dishonest in that respect, too?

Mr. Brancu. Usually they pay off.

They don’t pay off when we pull a raid on them or arrest them.
They stop at that. But they are in operation the next weels.

The Crramman. You mean they do not pay off for that day?

Mr. Brancrt. No, sir; they don’t.

The Cratr«an. It is unfortunate for the fellow that won, who
cannot get his winnings,

Mr. Branci. Yes, sir,

Thank you, sir. ;

The Cuairman. If the law enforcement is pretty vigilant, I would
be afraid to place a bet under those circumstances.

All right, Chief, if you will, you may proceed.

Stand by, Sergeant, as we may want to ask you some questions.

July of this year, indicated a gross revenue of

Mr. Branci. Yes, sir.

TESTIMONY OF NEIL G. BROWN—Resumed

Mr. Brown. To understand the crime network Traflicante operates
it is necessary to examine the modern era of crime in Tampa, which
cates from the early 1920's. Its most violent episodes were between
1937 and 1945, when the Sicilian nnderworld was attempting to move
inon all illegal gambling in Tampa. ‘This period in the history of our
city was referred to as “the era of blood,”

; Senator Musxi. Who coined that phrase, the gang or the news-
papers? ;

Mr. Brown. I think it was the newspapers, Senator. ;

During the 1920's, before the Sicilian underworld moved into the
rackets to any great extent, one of our most notorious residents, Charles
M. Wall, started his rise to become the acknowledged boss of most of
the illegal gambling in the Tampa and central area of the State of
Movida. He styled himself “dean of the underworld,” and in 1953 he
admitted to a Hillsborough County solicitor that he had made his liv-
ing from illegal gambling. During 1945, Wall forfeited his leadership
by entering into a partnership with Santo Traflicante, Sr,

Ip The elder Trafficante was born in Sicily in 1886. He came to Tampa
ye 1904 and became a naturalized citizen in 1925, In 1950, he was one
fi the missing witnesses in the Kefauver crime hearings held in
Tampa. Te died on August 11,1954. Police records do not show any
arrest for Santo Trafficante, Sr. ;

Tn 1952, Wall declared that he was retiring, although he did not

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state what he was retiring from. Th , Wall's body was
found in his home. Ile had been brutdty-berfen and his throat had
been slashed. We have never discovered who the murderers were, hor
have we determined their motive. Perhaps Wall was murdered be-
cause the killers leammed he had admitted that he was Trafficante’s
yartner in illegal gambling, and that he disclosed confidential facts
about the Mafia. ; ;

Tn 1960, Sergeant de la Llana_ obtained—from a confidential sou
of known reliability—-an astounding report. about the Mafia and its op-
eration in Tampa. ‘The report had becn obtained from Charles Wall
in 1945, approximately 6 months after Traflicante, Senior, had made
himself a partner in Walls’ gambling enterprises. ;

Wall declared that from 1920 through 1945 he controlled gambling
in Tampa and in the Florida counties of ILillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco,
Hernando, Polk, and Orange. His rival for control of the gambling
rackets was-the local Mafia organization. ‘This was headed, he said,
by Santo Traffieante, Sr., the Diecidue brothers, James Lumia, Ignacio
Antinori and Salvatore [taliano, Antinori was murdered on October
92, 1940; Lumia was murdered on June 5, 1950; and Italiano fled to
Mexico in 1951.

Wall admitted that he had good reasons for going along with Trafi-
cante, Senior, in 1945; previously the Mafia group had made three at-
tempts on his life; the first was in 1937 as Wall was leaving a bank on
the main street in Tampa; the second try oecurred as Wall was leaving
the garage behind his house; the third, in 1940, happened a few blocks
from his house. Inthe third attempt, a truck passed the automobile in

which Wall was riding and then stopped abruptly in front of the car.
James DeSimone and Nicola Impostato, FBI No. 2716692, each armed
with a shotgun, stepped from the trnck and fired at Wall and his
chauffeur. Both escaped with slight injuries. DeSimone and Impo-
stato were known Mafia killers from Kansas City, Mo. They were
staying with the Antinori family at the time.

The Crarrstan, Is Wall still living?

Mr. Brown. No, sir; he was killed.

The Cuamaan. Later killed?

Mr. Brown. Yes, sir. ;

The Cyramman. These three attempts failed but later he was killed?

Mr. Brown. Yes, sir, ;

Wall declared that the Mafia tried to make the public believe that
the organization no longer existed in this country and that Mafia mem-
bers pointed to the end of terrorism among Italian groups as evidence

that the Mafia was gone from the underworld scene. Wall believed,
however, that the organization had merely changed its type of opera-
tion. Ele said that other. racketeers had once used the Mafia to
monopolize rackets in major American cities. They had educated the

Mafia so well in the process that the Sicilians had taken over the rackets

themselves. Wall stated that the Mafia learned to consider extortion

from Italian businessmen a “nickel-and-dime” business. They had
discovered that public oflicials could be corrupted by bribery and that
they could organize to take over the major rackets in the United States.

Wall declared that the Mafia was not dying out, but “was bigger
and better than ever.” He said that his partner, the elder Traflicante,
had told him that there were some 10,000 active Mafia members in
the United States. Wall stated that the Mafia leader'in Tampa was

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Santo Traflicante, Sv.. and that he was well informed on the activities
of the organization in the United States, in Sicily, and in other coun-
tries of the world. Tratlicante had told him, Wall said, that the Mafia
in the United States was directed by a local board in every city having
a sizable Sicilian population. ‘There was a national board, headed
by Joseph Prataci m New York City, which was composed of the heads
ot the major local boards. Traflieante is reported to have said that
Frank Costello, Vineent Mangano, and Joe Massie were influential
members of the national bourd, and that Frank Nitti and Lucky |
Luciano were former merbers,

According to Wall’s aceount, the Mafia was composed of two dis-
tinet groups, an “inner circle” and an “outer circle.” The general rule
was that only natives of Sicily were admitfed to the “inner circle,”
while American-born Italians were recruited into the “outer circle.”
Wall was told it was possible for a member to be transferred from
“outer™ to “inner” status when he performed an act of special merit,
even though he had been born in the United States. The restrictions
were not due to lack of trust by native Italians toward those of Ameri-
can birth, but because the “inner circle” usnally took the major part
of the proceeds of the Mafia’s illegal activities and, therefore, preferred
to keep the membership of the “inner circle” as small as possible.

Senator Musxie, Would you say that this chart represents the
inner circle, Chief?

Mr. Brown. At the very top portion, Senator, would be the inner
circle, .

Below that

Senator Musxim. By the “top portion,” do you mean

Mr. Brown. I wonld include in that that’ the three top men would
bein the inner circle and those below that would be in the outer circle.

The Ciairman. Those would only be in the inner circle so far ag
the Tampa area is concerned ?

Mr. Brown. That is right. -
The Crainwan, Not in the inner circle overall?
Mr. Brown. No, sir; this is just in the inner circle inthe Tampa area.

The Caiman. But that gives an indication of how the overall
organization is set up.

Mr. Brown. That is correct’

The Cuamaan. You may have it in here, but I may have missed
it, but who was Wall talking to when he gave all this information?

Mr. Brown. That was a confidential iiformant.

The Ciatrman. Isee. Very well.

(At this point Senator Javits entered the hearing room.)

Mr. Brown. Wall believed the influential Mafia members in Tampa
from 1930 through 1945 were: Santo 'Trafficante, Sr., Salvatore Thali.
ano, James Lumia, and the Diecidue family—Al fonso, Antonio,
Thomas, and Frank, ‘Che Diecidues and their in-laws opposed the
leadership of Trafficante in the Tampa organization. Trafficante told
Wall that Vincent. Mangano, of the national board, supported the
Diecidues but that he, Trafticante, was able to stay in power because he
had Joseph Profaci’s friendship.

Senator Musxim. May Laska question here?

Mr. Brown. Yes, sir. ;

Senator Musxin. You refer to the national board. I do not recall
any point in this hearing where there was this kind of a direct refer-

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ence fo a national organization in the Mafia. Was it referred to as
such ?

_ Mx. Brown. This is the information as Wall has reported that it
consisted of a national board. ;

‘Senator Musxir. Do you know who he identified as members of the
national board ?

Mr. Brown. Well, Joe Profaci and Vincent Mangano were two of
the members of the national board. -

The Cuatrman. They are shown to be leaders of families, both of
them.

Senator Musxtr. But those same people are leaders of families in
New York as testified by Valachi.

Mr. Brown. Yes, sir. .

The Cuainman. So it is your impression that the heads of the New
York families made up a national board that had jurisdiction over
Tampa, among other places? :

Mr. Brown. That is correct; yes, sir.

Wall declared that there were approximately 40 members of the
Mafia living in the Tampa area and he believed that Trafficante's
share of proceeds of their gambling operation was being divided with
other menibers of the Mafia. ;

Information in our files from another confidential source confirms
Wall’s statement. In addition it reveals that Antonio Diecidue made
annual trips to Miami for the purpose of renting a house for Vincent
Mangano, who came down from New York every year to spend 2 or 3
months in Miami. This source stated that many important members
of the Mafia visited Mangano in Florida, but that Traflicante never
appeared.

Senator Musxir. May I ask another question on the national board?
Was it your impression that the national board members shared in
the proceeds of the criminal activities in Tampa? :

Me. Brown. Yes, sir; they hada percentage.

Senator Muskie. Have you any idea what that percentage was?

Mr. Brown. No,sir; [have no idea.

The gray shadings on our chart depict the influence of each of
these men. To me, it appears to be no small coincidence that in
Tampa the Diecidue family lost stature from at least the early 1950's
when Vincent Mangano disappeared; nor that Trafficante, Jr., the
Profaci man, avas in the immediate vicinity, when Albert Anastasia
was nurdered in 1957. ;

Sergeant de la Liana’s intelligence unit has prepared summaries of
the men in Trafficante’s organization, along with a commentary of
relevant facts about each of them. So that our information may be
available not only to the subcommittee, but to all-police units to whom
your reports are so valuable, I wish to submit these summaries and
commentary for the record, as our exhibit 8a through t; and exhibit 4.

The Cramwan. The summary to which you have referred may be
received as exhibit 48—— ;

Mr. O’Donwewn. Chief, as I understand it, these are summations,
very brief summations, of the 19 individuals that are on the chart
insofar as their criminal activity, their mode of business, their crim-
inal history, et- cetera; is that correct?

Mr. Brown. That is correct.

The Cirairstan. It may be received as exhibit No, 48.

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(The documents referred to marked “Exhibit No. 48” for reference,
and may be found in the files of the subcommittee.)
_T he Cuainman. You make reference to another exhibit. What
is it? .

Mr. O'Downenv. Will you explain the other exhibit? Go into a
little detail as to the various murders that you have on your exhibit
4, which will be a different exhibit in our hearings.

The Crairaan. Let the Chair get this straight first.

The summary that he referred to has been made exhibit 48,

That is what you referred to as “our exhibit 32°72

Mr. Brown. Yes, sir. ;

The Coarrman. Then you say “through t; and exhibit 4.” What is
exhibit 4, your exhibit 47 _

Mr. Brown. Exhibit 4 is a brief summation on each of the subjects.

The Cramman. What is your exhibit 3?

Mr. Brown. They are arrest records of each of the individuals,

The Citarraan. Very well. ;

Exhibit 48 is the arrest records.

-Mr. Brown. Yes, sir.

The Ciratraan. Your exhibit 4 is a brief summary of each person
on the chart?

Mr. Brown. Yes, sir. ;

The Crrarrstan. It is of his records and activities?

Mr. Brown. Yes, sir.

The Crrainaan. Lt may be received as exhibit No. 49 for reference.

(The document referred to marked “Exhibit No. 49” for reference,
and may be found in the files of the subcommittee.)

The Ciratraan. Now the record is straight.

You may proceed.

Mr. Brown. Our department has always found it a most dificult
task to obtain evidence sullicient for successful prosecution of Malia
menihers, because the witnesses who might offer such evidence have al-
ways been reluctant to do so. The paramount reason, of course, is
their fear of Malia reprisals, since it is common knowledge in Tampa
that the Mafia does not hesitate to use murder for such reprisals and
the relative infrequency with which such professional murders are

successfully prosecuted.

We have categorized certain homicides in the Tampa area, from
1928 to the present, as “gangland slayings.” An examination of the
circumstances of some of these murders emphasizes how the Mafia
uses murder to discipline its membership, to revenge itself against vio-

“lators of its code and to otherwise eliminate opposition to its criminal
activities and goals. Of the 23 homicides on the list, only 1 has been
solved. A ratio of less than 5 percent. of solution—and that par-
ticular murder was cleared up because it apparently resulted from an
argument, although it is possible that the slayer deliberately provoked
the argument. It was not, therefore, a typical gangland slaying, al-
though the killer and the victim were both underworld figures.

In startling contrast to the number of unsolved gangland slayings,
an examination of all other Tampa homicides from 1938 through
1962 shows that we have had 145 murders and that only 4 are presently
unsolved, a solution ratio of better than 97 percent. From 1960
through 1962, all $3 homicides in our city were solved.

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The Citatratan. What period is covered by the 23 gangland slayings
that you make reference to? ,

Mr. Brown. From 1928 through the present day.

‘The Cuamman. Ina period of about 30 years.

Mr. Brown. Yes, sir.

The Cramrman. And you identify them as gangland slayings as
distinguished ‘from the usnal homicide cases that you have?

Mr. Brown. Yes, sir.

The Crairman. On those, according te your testimony, it has been
impossible—or you have been unsuccessful, at least, in solving any
of them except the one that appeared so obvious, and it would not
possibly come within the category of “gangland slayings”?

Mr. Brown. Yes, sir.

The Crairman. But you have included it as being the only one

that was solved.

Mr. Brown. That is correct.

Senator Muskie, What are the characteristics of the gangland slay-
ings that makes it so difficult to solve them as contrasted with your
excellent record in other homicides?

Mr. Brown. Of course, primarily it is heeause of witnesses who are
reluctant to give the law enforcement any information whatsoever.
In some of our killings—-I recall one where we had nine witnesses in
the room and nobedy actually saw the murder or knew anything
was going on.

Senator Musnte. So this fact has a direct bearing upon the question

of immunity statutes, for example. ;

Mr. Brown. Thatis right. That is correct. .

The Crratraran. This, in other words, emphasizes the rigid disci-
‘pline, the code of underworld law, that cannot. be violated without
suffering the penalty of death.

Mr. Brown. That is correct.

- The Cramman. In other words, the nine who were in the room when
the murder was committed, possibly every one of them knew what
happened.

Mr. Brown. Yes, sir; I would think so. .

The Cramsan. I would doubt that somebody did not know it.
But, anyway, they know that the penalty for them talking would be
death.

Mr. Brown. Yes, sir.

The Crrarratan. Even if they were inclined to, and I do not mean
to say they were inclined to, even if one of them were inclined to

talk, he knows what the penalty would be. And that makes it
difficult. That is why you have the trouble in the gangland slayings,
the silence, the threat, the intimidation of a death sentence, of their
being executed by their underworld government if they talk.

Mr. Brown. That is true.

Senator Musxie. Then, Chief, just to nail that point down, they
seem to be more than concerned and clearly are more concerned for
themselves and for their allies than they are about immunity against
prosecution.

Mr. Brown. Yes, sir; that. is true. They are afraid for their lives.
The Cuatrman. Very well. You may proceed.

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Mr. Brown. I have had these gangland slayings listed, with a few
pertinent comments about each, and submit to the subcommittee this
list as our exhibit 5.

The Cnamsman. It may be received and be made exhibit No. 50.

(The document referred to was marked “Exhibit No. 50” for ref-
erence and may be found in the files of the subcommittee.)

(At this point Senator Javits withdrew from the hearing room.)

The Cuairman. You may proceed,

Mr. Brown. With few exceptions, those murders well reflect Joseph
Valachi’s testimony that Mafia members do live by violence and die
by violence.

At least two of the unsolved murders on our Jist—that of Gus Perez
in 1936 and of Joe “Pelusa” Diaz in 1958—were, in my opinion, di-
rectly attributable to the Mafia’s knowledge or belief that the victims
had given to legal authorities evidence incriminating Mafia members.
A third murder—of Carl Carramusa, in 1945—taking place in Chi-
cago, involved some Tampa Mafiosi, and is of particular interest in
illustrating the Mafia zeal for vengeance against 1 member who vio-
jates its rules. It is of further significance, too, in demonstrating the
difliculty of protecting witnesses against the Mafia—and is under-
lining Attorney General Kennedy’s request for additional funds for
that purpose, which request I strongly endorse.

The Carramusa case developed in Kansas City, Mo., with certain
aspects related to the Mafia organization in Tampa. The principal
figure in the case was Carl Carramusa, known as a minor member of
the Mafia and a front man for the Mafia’s narcotics traffic operation
in Kansas City.

Carramusa was indicted in 1942 for conspiring to violate the Fed-
eral narcotic laws. His codefendants were Joseph DeLuca, Nicola
Impastato, Paul Antinori, Joe Antinori, Charles Gerrgimina, Louis
Ventola, Patsy Ventola, Charles Tiabi, Samuel Pernice, and Fellipo
Fernice. Tampa’s Mafia organization was one of the sources of sup-

ly for the Kansas City group, and at that time the narcotics trade
in Tampa was headed by Paul Antinori and Joseph Antinori, who
had inherited the narcotics leadership from their father, Ignazio An-
tinori. The elder Antinori had been murdered a few years before in
a narcotics deal. All of the defendants in the Kansas City case were
prosecuted successfully, primarily because Carramusa violated the
cardinal Matia code of l’omerta, or silence, testifying openly against
them at their trial. After the trial, Carramusa went into hiding in
Chicago with his wife and family, changing his name and beginning
a new life under new circumstances,

Three years later, in June of 1945, while he was seated in his auto-
mobile, Carramusa’s head was blown off by a shotgun-blast. James
Lumia, an associate of the Antinoris, was a suspect in this Inilling,
but was himself murdered at Tampa in June of 1950. A prime suspect
was the same Nicola Impastato, who had some years before attempted
to kill Charles Wall. oa

In Tampa we have suffered also the frustration I know that many

-. of my police colleagues in other cities have experienced—the deliberate
’ recanting at trial of the original statements of complaining or key
* witnesses, because of their fear of Mafia reprisal, clear instance

of this frustration of law enforcement effort ‘involved three of the

~ yanking members of the Tampa Mafia.

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588 ORGANIZED CRIME AND ILLICIT TRAFFIC IN NARCOTICS

One day in 1953, one Joe Castellano went to the Ttalian Club in
Tampa to play cards with a group of friends. During the course
of the evening, he talked to Salvatore Seaglione privately. Scaglione
asked Castellano if he wanted to make a profit on a “hot load” of
whisky. Castellano said he was interested, and they agreed to meet
later that night.

At the meeting, Seaglione was accompanied by Joe Mistretta and
Angelo LoScalzo. Castellano got into the front seat of a car provided
by the others, and the four men drove to a thickly wooded area outside
of Tampa city limits. Castellano was then attacked with a hammer,
being hit repeatedly on the head. He managed to get out of the car,
although he was badly hurt, He broke loose from his elderly assail-
ants and ran away. ITe stumbled into a nearby house and asked to
be taken to the constable’s house, where he gave a statement about
the incident, naming the three 2s his assailants. He swore to the
county solicitor that he had no idea why he was beaten. Scaglione,
‘Mistretta, and LoScalzo were arrested and charged with assault with

intent to murder.

Joe Castellano disappeared for a period of time, After he was
found, the case went to trial. Castellano changed his story completely
and testified that he had injured himeelf while hunting on the night
of the attack. ‘The predictable result, of course, was a verdict for the
defendants of “not guilty.”

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FURTHER FEDERAL LEGISLATION TO FIGHT
ORGANIZED CRIME

T believe firmly that it is almost impossible for the Police Depart-
ment of the City of Tampa, or any other municipality, to cope ef-
fectively with the activities of a national or international crime
syndicate such as these hearings show exists in the United States.
One of the main problems is that the most dedicated, well-trained,
and well-staffed police force is almost always limited legally and
financially to the territorial boundaries of its municipality. For
example, the Tampa Police’ Department is obviously interested in
and informed about the activities of Santo Traflicante. However, in
the past the department was unable to do anything about Trafficante’s
operations in pre-Castro Cuba; it has no jurisdiction or control of
his illegal affairs in Miami and elsewhere in central Florida. The
department could only record that he attended the Apalachin meeting
in November of 1957, but it could do nothing about this obvious evi-
dence that he was a high-ranking member of a national crime
syndicate.

Tn the light of our experience with the Mafia in our own city’s
underworld, I submit for this subcommittee’s consideration some sug-
gestions for Federal legislation which I believe would certainly help
local law enforcement agencies to fight organized crime more
effectively.

1. More ample funds must be obtained by local agencies to recruit
high caliber police personnel and to retain superior personnel having
the experience and capabilities to understand, investigate, and prose-
cute organized criminal conspiracies. Because of the demonstrated
interstate nature of organized crime, Federal legislation similar to

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The Miami Herald

September 19, 1976

Could Rosselli Have Linked:
Castro Plot to JFK Death?

By RON LaBRECQUE

 Heraid Staff Writer

In 1960, when the CIA was try-

‘ing to set up a delicate attempt on
_the life of Fidel Castro, it turned to

a man once described as “‘the big-

“gest flag-waving SOB in the coun-

‘try’ — West Coast

underworld

‘figure Johnny Rosselli.

’

Rosselli — a seemingly improba-

-ble conspirator in a government
“plot — got the “flag-waving” label
.from Salvatore (Momo) Giancdna,
‘then Chicago's top crime boss and

a man Rosselli brought into that

" ‘same plot..

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Now both are dead, murdered in
the past year, and investigators are
wondering whether their plotting
led to their deaths and whether the
CIA plots against Castro —— only
recently made public and even kept
from the Warren Commission’ —

are vital clues to the John F. Ken-

nedy assassination.

The deaths of Giancana, in June’

of 1975, and Rosselli, this summer,
have aroused a renewed concern in
Washington, where on Friday the

House of Representives voted to ree:

open the investigation of the Ken-
nedy murder. .

REP. THOMAS N. Downing (D.,

Va.), who will be chairman of the,

panel, said he is “convinced” a con-
spiracy was involved in Kennedy’ s"
death.

Now, in the aftermath of thesvi-;
olent deaths of Giancana and Ros-'
selli, the question arises ‘of what
role, if any, the Kennedy White
House played in the early 1960s.
“deal” the CIA made with the two
underworld figures to have Castro
murdered.

Whether “the Kennedy 7 White’
House knew ‘about about the. CIA’s |
plotting (Robert F. Kennedy found -
out after the contacts were ended), °
the CIA’s use of the underworld

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\

‘seems ironic in retrospect.

t! Robert Kennedy’s passionate ef-
forts to disable organized crime are
well documented.

IN 1960 when ‘Robert Kennedy
wrote about what he had learned
of organized crime in America
from his years as chief counsel te
the Senate Rackets Committee, he

-too quoted Giancana to make a

point.

He told about Giancana's inter-
view at his local draft board at the
outbreak of World War II, when
he was asked what he did for a live

a
: oy steal,” Giancana is Said -to
have replied.

+ So Sam Giancana didn’t go to
,war and years later would boast to
‘Chicago reporter Sandy Smith that:
the stayed out of the Army — la-
‘beled unfit — by telling the truth.

i; “What’s wrong with the syndi-
‘cate?” Kennedy, quoted Giancana.
“Two or three of us get together
‘on a business deal and everybody
{Says it’s a bad thing. Businessmen

‘do it all the time- and nobody -

‘squawks.”*

A Senate committee began stu-..

dying the Kennedy questions more:

‘than a year ago as it looked at co-

tvert CIA activities. _

: IN AN addendum to the Senate
‘Intelligence Committee's interim
treport last November, Sen. Howard
‘Baker (R., Tenn.) said, “It is my
tpersonal view that on balance the
likelihood that presidents (the re-
‘port dealt with Dwight Eisenhower
and Kennedy) knew of the (Castro)
assassination plots is greater than
the likelihood that they did not.”
dust to trace Rosseili’s history
with the CIA is mind-boggling for
the investightors. Yet, it is just one
aspect of the search for his killer.
: Johnny Rosselli —- born on the
‘fourth of July in Esperia, Italy, and
71 when he died — was not first
‘and foremost a CIA operative.

*® His greater role as evidenced by
two convictions, his associations
‘and to some extent his own com-
ments, was as an influential, ‘if
publicly lesser known, organized
grime figure. .

r: HIS ASSOCIATION with other
Ydentified underworid members
was monitored by law enforcement
agencies as recently as several
weeks before ‘his July 28 disap-
Pearance. ;

‘By all accounts, Rosselli was a-
‘charming man, dressing in expen-.
sive clothes, married for.only two *
fyears ‘in the early 1940s and -
iknown most of his life as one who
ieasify attracted women.

' He. wag an immigrant who told”
tin a short autobiography written.

tabout 1967 that his “life of crime” <

began as a teenager in Boston, at-
jlempting arson for his stepfather
pand: stealing $50 on his own. As he:
traveled west, finally to settle in.
Cantornia his ‘attention turned to
(bootlegging, gambling and dab-
pling in the movie business. -

IT IS said that Rosselli guarded
ithe West Coast gambling interests

: for Giancana's Chicago syndicate.

Why Rosselli was chosen by the
(CIA for a Castro plot in 1960 is un-
clear, although CIA officials have
‘since testified that they wanted the
kind of contacts in Cuba which or-
‘ganized crime had made during the |
;pre- -Castro days when Havana was
‘a. gamblers’ haven.

‘Giancana was enlisted by Rossel-
ti because he had influence with -
Florida's Santo Trafficante, consid-
ered the key underworld gambling
figure in Havana. - :

. The unraveling of CIA and un-~<
derworld conspiracies, an awesome -

“web spanning decades, is left to a -

team of nine in the Metro Homicide
Division. It is a team now clearly
consumed by the task which has

been a’ full-time operation since .

Rosselli’s body was pulled from _
Dumfoundling Bay on. Aug. 7.

H

' THAT THE Metro team is even
involved is happenstance. Ragsselli .
‘lived in Plantation, Broward:Coun- «,
ty, with his sister and brother-in- —
law. It’s just that his killers chose.

to dump his body in Dade.

While. several detectives say
their instincts lead them to con- .
clude that the Rosselli murder was :
ah internal underworld affair, all-:
on the team are aware of the pres~ _
sure.on them to search each clue ~
that leads back to the CIA-Castro-
affair. .

With: Rosselli’s ‘death this sum-
mer, the newly appointed Senate
committee saw its list of knowl- -
‘edgeable witnesses further trim-
med..Some of those witnesses have
. died violently and some from natu-
ral causes.

‘’ When Giancana was murdered in
June of 1975, before he could even
be questioned by the committee
staff, authorities attributed it to an
internal gangland struggle — even
though. the. murderer is still un-
known.

~The death of Rosselli, who had -
appeared before the committee
_three times in the past year with-
out immunity, caused greater con-

: <ern on Capitol Hill.

THE SAME night Rosselli's body
was identified ~- the legs hacked
off and stuffed along with the body
‘into an oil drum -~ Baker, vice
chairman of the Senate Intelligence
‘Committee, called for the FBI to
‘get involved in the case. (Several
days later, Attorney General Ed-
- ward Levi ordered FBI involve~
ment.)
"It wasn’t until several weefs
later, however, that what was
known to Baker. became public
_ knowledge.

A section of the former commit-
tee’s April report told of a Wash-
ington attorney who in 1967. went.
to Supreme Court Chief. Justice..
Earl Warren (chairman: of the#
then-disbanded Warren: Commis- ;
sion) to.say that two‘of his clients
believed they knew ‘about Cubap.
‘agents in the United States w
_ conspired in the assassination. of |

ohn F. Kennedy, "ore se

THE INFORMATION: eventually

'- reached the FBI, but as the Senate,

committee concluded this year, the

: 1967 FBI probe was slipshod and
incomplete.

One of the clients referred ‘to ing
~ the report has since been identified’;
“as Rosselli. And it has since’ been”
learned that Rosselli was con-
_vinced he held a vital clue to the
JFK murder.

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“There was never the slightest.
doubt in John's mind that Castro
was responsibie for the assassina--
tion of Kennedy,” said Edward P.
Morgan, the attorney referred to in
the report.

Morgan is an attorney of no

mean stature in Washington. He -
“served as chief counsel to the joint.

congressional ' committee © which
studied the Pearl Harbor attack,
counsel to the Senate Foreign Rela-
tions Committee and for seven
fer was chief inspector of the

. ROSSELLI. told Morgan about
the CIA plot in 1967, when the De--
- partment of Justice was vigorously
_ attempting to deport Rosselli. for
being an illegal alien.

.. Rosselli, Morgan said, “was cer» -
: tain that the people he (Rosselliy .
put around Castro in the CIA plot >
turned right around and killed Ken- .

nedy. The people he still knew (in
- 1967) did it.”

‘Rosselli, according to Morgan, :
' decided to talk about his CIA activ--:
ity in hopes of decreasing the Pres~ >
sure from the FBI and Department .
of Naturalization and Immigration,.
both Justice Department agencies.
. Several. friends of Rosselli, in-*
‘cluding Morgan, say they aré con- -
“vinced the FBI tried to get Rosselli
to become an organized crime. in-°
formant by threatening to have:-
him deported : if he ‘didn't coopera:

- te.
IN" 1961, through. a_bungled_

¢ wiretap “effort, the FBf* “became:

“ aware of Rosseili's CIA activities. ‘!

‘While Giancana: and Rosselli.
were in Florida planning the opera--
tion, Giancana wanted to return to
Las Vegas to check on-his girl
friend, Phyllis McGuire, whom he
suspected’ of dating comedian Dan
Rowan. To keep Giancana in Flori-
‘da, it was agreed that a bug would '
be placed in her hotel room and her.
conversations monitored.

But’ the private detective they’;
hired, with CIA money. it has since :
been learned, was discovered and —

, arrested. Eventually the police in- .
vestigation led back to the Castro j j
"plotters.

Prosecution was avoided when ;

the CIA intervened and said the’

“national interest’ would be -dam-

. aged if the plot information be-
” came public.

"WHEN THE wiretap case was
again-to be investigated in 1966,

this time by a Senate committee

headed by the late Sen. Edward
Long (D., Mo.), the CIA again step-.
ped in to stop it.

_ Robert
- agent-turned Howard Hughes aide

Ten,” Morgan said.

“sure. you so far as the FBI is cone:

Morgan was told about the pend-
ing investigation by Rosselli and
Mahue, a former FBI

who was the CIA's. initial link to.
Rosselli. ;
Mahue told Morgan that both he:
and Rosselli had been subpenaed to;
appear before the committee. Mores:

ton, the CIA general counsel. Hous-
ton went to Long and the inves'

- gation was dropped. wf

. MORGAN SAID he knew, as the:
Senate committee recently empha-i

‘sized as well, that all information! -
-about the CIA plots —- which could?

have been the incentive for pro-*
Castro forces to kill Kennedy —:
had been kept from the Warren:

‘Commission.

“I was an admirer of Earl War-.
“(His) report:
said that ... Oswald alone killed?
Kennedy. It kept bugging me after..
so gruesome a detail from Rosselli-
that the Chief Justice could put his

-name on a report. which didn’t as-.

sess the most’ significant. piece of.
evidence bearing on the killing: of,
Kennedy.”

The information. Morgan had
was passed to Warren via.colum-
nist Drew Pearson, a mutual
friend. Eventually, it reached the.
FBI, but, remarkably, even after di-'

Tect orders from President Lyndon

Johnson in the spring of 1967, ins:
vestigation was not vigorously pur-*

_ Sued.

“THE SENATE ‘Intelligence Com-.

_mittee compared that apparent. in-:

action with a statement former FBI.

‘ director J. Edgar Hoover made to
. the Warren Commission on-May 5,-;

1964. Hoover said, “well, I can as-*

cerned, the case will be continue

in an open classification for all.

“time. That is, any information com-:
. ing to us or any report coming to: -
: us from any source will be. thor:

oughly investigated, so. _that we:

Swill’ be “able “to: ‘prove’ or " disprovel
’the allegation.”

A Senate Committee staff mem
ber commented recently, “what is’

really happening is that the investi-

gation which the FBI should have
done in 1967 — and no one can
come close to explaining why it
wasn’t - — is actually being done

_ how.’ ar

HART, AS have local investiga-
tors, has established three possible

'scenario’s for Rosselli's death: his

recent organized crime activity, re-
taliation for his Castro assassina-
tion efforts or the information he
held concerning the JFK assassina-
tion. :

“Maybe Reosé élli’s-- information
was the vical nerve a the. Kennedy~
assassination,” a Senate source, told
The Herald: - |

High officials in the Cuban gov: |
ernment also reportedly feel there »

' was a’ ‘Cuban factor"sin the JFK!
death, but they see it as a result of;
exile politics, according to a recent
article by Alton Frye, a senior fel-.
low of the Council Foreign Rela-:
tions in Washington. .

_Frye wrote that he visited Ha-
~vana recently and met with Cuban,
. Officials including, Deputy Prime:
' Minister Carlos Rafael Rodriguez.

“ they volunteer the suspicion

that the recent murders of Sam Gi-

ancana and Johnny Rosselli -

surely have some connection with
) Cuban exile politics and the ‘Kenne=.

. dy murder,” Frye wrote. .

' THERE HAVE been theortes res:

cently propounded to show why

both pro and anti-Castro forces .
’ could have wanted to get. JFK out”
: Of power in 1963.

On the one hand, there is the re--i

~ port of French journalist Jean Dan-

> iel,

’* of an offer from.JFK for calmer re-
. lations. Castro was reportedly

8 agreeable, The report stated. that

Daniel,

who was the bearer to Castro -

;

“later was: lunching’ with,"

Castro when word came that Ken-_

"nedy had been’ shot. Daniel de-’
* scribed the Cuban leader as penu-
.inely shocked by the news. —

It has since been learned that
probably in the very hour JFK was
shot, a one- time Castro supporter
was receiving a poison pen device
‘from a CIA agent in what was 4
long-running anti-Castro ‘effort.

That Cuban agent was code-named:

AM/LASH, and he has since been
identified as Rolando Cuebala, now-

imprisoned in Cuba for his assassi-
. nation Plotting, 26. | lg

WHETHER IFK had knowledg

His closest advisers,” E
‘ tied before the Senate Committe
‘all said he had no knowledge o
-such plots and. would. never. hav
« approved of them.
+ The same month Rosselli was
. passing poison pills to his Cuban
3 contact at a meeting at. the “Fon-
® tainebleau, March of 1961, former.
Florida Sen. George Smathers. a
friend of Kennedy, said he and

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Kennedy discussed the ramifica-'

tions of a Castro assassination.

Smathers has since said Kennedy
rejected the idea and that the dis-
cussion was more of a “brain-pick-
ing” session, —

AT LEAST one high- level CIA
official did testify he believed the
White House was being briefed on-
the plots but according to Richard
Bissell, one of the officials who
originally decided to use Rosselli, it
was through the method of “plau-

‘sible deniability.”

That, according to the recent
Senate report, “‘can also lead to the
use of euphemism and circumlocu-’
tion, which are designed to allow
the President and other senior offi-
cials to deny knowledge of an op-
eration should it be disclosed.” ,

Another alleged link between‘
the White. House and the under-

‘world plotters, first made public by

the Senate Committee, has also
been denied by virtually everyone
involved. Judith: Campbell Exner,
the woman who claims to have.
been friend and lover to both Gian-

‘

“cana and JFK, introduced to both

by Frank Sinatra, was not a link in.
the Castro plotting, those close’ to% i
both Giancana and. Kennedy have.“

‘said, ,

A MAN with access to Kenne-

dy's closest advisers told The Her- 9

_ gangsters.
» phone call
; House and Exner was made only |

‘ sion fiasco.

ald recently, “The- Giancana-Ros-
selli thing is unrelated to the Exner
thing..I was there: e JFK knew
her, but he was naiv, ‘about: those
kinds of things.

There is documentation to show
that om March 22, -1962, Hoover.

_lunched: privately with Kennedy:
_and presumably gave him his first .

information linking Exner with the :
The final recorded. :
between the White

few hours later.

same unidentified Cuban-to who
Rosselli i

in April of 1961, was among
group of Cuban: exile leaders wh
met with JFK following the inva

IT IS known that several of the *
Cubans - with . whom _ Rosselli
worked have been identified, but.
investigators say that not all’ are:

. known. -

agents.

' Bennett Williams;
’ think he, had more knowledge";

“« As a condition: to his appear=-j
. ances ‘before the Senate Committee;

” in the past, year, it was agreed that2

Rosselli “would not state the:

names or confirm. the existence of.

; those agents:. whom he knewa

i about,” Rosselli's: attorney” Lesli
| Scheer said.

? The: friends and acquaintances °
- Rosselli who could be contacted by?
' The Herald all ‘said they never’
j\neard the names of the Cuban.

4

But <a‘ ‘Committee “Source: ‘cau !
_itioned, “they (Cuban agents) read:
. the committee’s report, they know
who’ s being referred to.” ~

ANOTHER - Rosselli. attorney, . :
- Tom Wadden, a partner of Edwards
said, “Yes, It

than he testified to. |

Searching Rosselli’s more recent :

., past. for. enemies also presents’.
problems, . investigators say.“

The decline of. John Rosselli ap-i
‘pears to begin in the late 1960s. In«
1967, he was convicted'in a card-: _
cheating scandal at the posh, celeb-*:
rity-filled Friar’s Club in: Los. An- .
geles where the influence of Sina-
tra had made him a member ace:
cording to investigators.

Deportation pressures were also
mounting at this time. He

ROSSELLI entered prison on the
conviction in 1970 where he would;

‘ serve three years of a five-year,

sentence. ~

In 197]; he was brought td a.
federal grand jury in Los Angeles .
which was probing whether some ;
_indentified Detroit organized crime .

‘leaders conspired with the Emprise:
Corp. — a giant firm with ation
wide race track and sporting event?
concessions — to hide financial in-
terests in. the, Frontier Hotel an’ :
Vegas.

Rosselli, too, had, an’ interest in.

- the Frontier, which opened in 1967..

He owned the gift shop concession:
along, with a partner naméd Joe.
Breen. How Rosselli obtained the.
concession is unclear, but” Breen

.. said it gave Rosselli an’ income of
about $60,000.

ROSSELLI at one time hdd b been:
a major influence in Las Vegas.
Several sources sajd that when- the
owners of the Desert Inn wanted
Howard Hughes to move out of the
penthouse — because his special
needs were costly and -putting

some. “high. rollers” in, would be
more profitable —-.it was Rosselli
-who patched things up. -
Hughes eventually bought the
* Desert Inn, as well as the Frontier.
What Rosselli told the federal
grand “jury about the Frontier. in.
1971 is unknown. Rosselli didn’t:
testify later at the trial at’ which:
Anthony J. Zerilli and Michael Pol-
.izzi and the. Emprise.Corp., among :
-others, were convicted.

ZERILLI and Polizzi are “still in
jail. In 1973, the House of Repre-
sentatives - Select’ Committee on
Crime: probed the influence of or-
ganized crime in sports — and one
area they looked at was Emprise.
_and the Frontier Hotel case. ©
"At the time of the conviction, the
federal prosecutor asked that Poliz-
_zi and Terilli be jailed immediately,
- because monitored, . wiretapped
conversations showed that the two
had talked about “murder, the kill-
ing of certain individuals.”

. An intimate associate of Rosselli,
however, discounts the possibility
that Rosselli’s grand jury appear-
ance could have led to his death.
-“They know Johnny didn’t talk ‘to
the grand jury,” the associate said.

JOE BREEN said- Rosselli hadn't
been to Las Vegas for nine years,
that “he’s never even seen the gift
shop.”

. Since his prison ‘release and
move to Plantation, Rosselli. wasn’t
trying to regain power; according
to his friends. “He had no muscle,”
said an. associate."I can’t believe
Rosselli was getting back into’ mob
stuff.” -

But at the same time, many of
the associates were surpised to
learn about Rosselli’s recent visits
with alleged organized crime. fig-
ures on the West Coast.

_ Several associates speculate that

: Rosselli wanted to get involved in

‘casino gambling, preferably in the
Middle. East,. and was looking for

. someone with mane «back him.

ay IMPRESSION. was that he

was: broke,” Morgan:said. “He told
me last.year,. ‘I’ min. bad, financial,
> straits.” S- 2
Scheer said Rosselli’ s income ine
cluded about $60,000 from the gift

’ shop and about $3,500 in social se-
curity, most of which went for
back fees to attorneys and for gov-.
_ernment fines. - . ee

i

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"One friend said. that’ just. ‘before
Giancana’s death, Rosselli had ac-

‘cepted Giancana's. offer of money.

The friend was to act as.the inter-
mediary. “Let me figure out what-
my next (attorney’s) tab. will: be,”
the friend. quoted Rosselli as say-.
ing. :

Rosselli is described. as a man
with a sense of humor who did lit-"
tle offending. .

A California woman: who had
known Rosselli. for about 40 years:

,told “The Herald, “If you were.
around him for 30 minutes you'd .

like him because he would regard
you as a human being.” :

“If you had a headache he would

.either get you an aspirin or send

someone to get one. I said: some--

. thing significant there — he would

get it or he would send’ someone —
he wasn't a pansy, but he wasn’t a

tough guy either.” '


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perjury involving alleged contribution to
political organization in return for im- exposure varied in certala seetions of the
airment of _ Securittes and Exchange country. u. Sv. Mitehell, D.C.N-Y¥.1979,
ommission investigation and judicial 372 F.Supp. 1239, appeal dismissed © 495
| proceedings were not entitled to cuntinu- F.2@ 1290.
ance or change of venue on ground that, . .

§ 1518. Obstruction of State ‘or lucal law enforcement
. (2) It shall be unlawful for two or more persons to conspire to ob-
struct the enforcement of the criminal laws of a State or political subdi-
vision thereof, with the intent to facilitate an illegal gambling business

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supervises, directs, or owns all or
ness,
(>). As used in this section-—
(1) “illegal

gambling business”

part of an illegal gambling bust-

means a gambling business —

—

“ (1) one or more of such persons does any act to effect the object ! th by. char’
of such a conspiracy; : ’ tone, U. f°
| (2) one or more of such persons is an offictal or employee, elected, . i eesratned
appointed, or otherwise, of such State or political subdivision; and 1064, 39 L.E:

(3) one or more of such persons conducts, finances, manages, - This sect
persons to.
ment of eri

cal suddivis
cilitata Mle:
specified ci
powers grat
clause, U.S
infringe on

which—

(1) is a violation of the law of a State or political subdivi- -- US Cor
sion in which it is conducted; tally vague

(il) involves five or more persons who conduct, finance, Pas Garr

mahage, supervise, direct, or own all or part of such business; .: 4, Detinttl

and _ + Definttle

(il) has been or remains in substantially continuous opera- “| fess wich

tion for a period in excess of thirty days or has a gross revenue .{ who condy

of $2,000 in any single day. 4 Bana th

(2) “gambling” includes but is not limited to pool-selling, book- .! GUIRY ta
making, maintaining slot machines, roulette wheels, or dice tables, ~ eluded in
and conducting lotterles, policy, bolita or numbers games, or selling Rien, CA
chances therein. te, ine

(3) “State” means any State of the United States, the District - fondant. os

of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and any territory --| charging

or possession of the United States. : on ea:

(¢c) This section shali not apply to any bingo game, lottery, or similar 1955 aud :
_game of chance conducted by an organization exempt from tax under para-, . ett, CAS
graph (3) of subsection (c) of section 601 of the Internal Revenue Code to obstru
of 1954, as amended, if no part of the gross receipts derived from such of Loulst
activity inures to the benefit of any private shareholder, member, or em- spire to:
ployee of such organization, except as compensation for actual expenses lows pf
incurred by him in the conduct of such activity. gambling
(d) Whoever violates this section shall be punished by @ fine of not cone
more than $20,000 or imprisonment for not more than five years, or both. grounds
‘Added Pub.L, 91-452, Title VII, § 802(a), Oct. 15, 1970, 84 Stat. 936. atafe off
-Beferences in ext. Paragraph (3) of sion of a State or possession, on the same Indictr
subsection (c} of section 601 of the Inter- subject matter, or to relieve any person of . with cor
nal Revenue Code of 1954, referred to in any obligation linposed by any law of any of erimi:
subsec, (c), is classified to section SB0l(c) State or ossession, or political subdivi- | of this
(By of Title 26, Internal Revenue Code of sion of a State or possession.” persons
1954. : Legisiattve History. Yor legislative his- ment of.
Congressional Statement of Findings. tory and purpose of Pub.L. 01-452, see subdivis:
Section §01 of Pub.L. 01-452 provided’ 1979 U.8.Code Cong. and Adm.News, D- tate illes
that: “The Congress vinds that iegal 4007. ified ctr
to time
section +

gambling involves widespread use of, an .
hag an effect upon, interstate commerce eee rolt
. ¢ :

Sank dinindpte reice ir Nit famed bet

and the facilities thereof.” "
‘Priority of State Laws, Section 811 of Index to Notes dictmen
Pub.l, 91-452 provided that: “No provi- applicat
sion of this title fenucting this section Admissibility of evidence 8 Use, i
and section 1955 of this title, amending Constitutionality 7% spiracy
section 2516 of this title aud enacting ma- Construction with other laws % nal law
teclal set out as notes under this section Definitions & section
and section 1955 of this title} indicates an Discovery and inspection 1c { conspit
intent on the part of the Congress to oc- Elements of offenao 5 \ inal lay
eupy the field in which such provisiun op- Evidence 2 thereof,
erates to the exclusion of the law of a Indictment la . { gambli:
State or possession, of & political subdivi- Participants in buaivesa 3 . ' guint
. i onspy
200 { Law E
: 5

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CRIMES . Ch. 73

Historical and Revision Notes

Roviser’s Note. Based on Title is, U.
S.C., 1910 ed., § 2t1a CMar. 4, 1909, ¢, 321,
§ 135a, as added Jan. 13, 1940, ¢. 1, 54 Stat.
13; June 8, 1945, &. 178, § 2, 59 Stat. 234).

Word “agency was substituted for
the words “independent establishinent,
board,. commission” in two instances to
climinate any possible ambiguity as to
scope of section. (See definitive scction 6
of this title.)

Minor changes were made in phrase-
ology. 80th Congress Louse Report N
304.

References in Text. The Antitrust
Civil Process Act, referred to in the text,
Js classified to chapter 34 of Title 15,
Commerce and Trade,

Notes of

Generally 2
Constitutionalily 4°
Evidence 6

Indictment or fnformation §
Proceedings within section 3
Questions for jury 7
Witness within seetion 4

Library references

Obstructing Justice Gs97, 21.
C58. Obstructing Justice §§ 5, 29.

1. Constitutionality

Former section 2414 of this title [new
this section] providing that whoever “cor-
Fuptly” endeavors to influcnee, intimidate
or impede any witness in procecding, ete.
was not unconstitutional for failure to sct
Up an ascertainable standard of guilt
contrary to U.S.C.A.Const. Amends. 5 and
6& U.S. vy. Rrumfisid, D.C.Lads4), 8 ¥,
Supp. 696. . .

2. Generally

This section covers any activity which
Would influonce or intimidate witness who
might be called ta testify and is not
limited to witness who has been called to
testify with defendant’y knowledge. U. S.
v. Batten, D.C.D.C.1964, 296 B.Supp. 492,
certiorari denied §3 S.Ct, 898, 280 U.S. 912,
13'L.Ed.2d 799, rchearing denied 83 S.Ct.
1057, 381 U.S. 990, 14 L.Ed.2d oss.

3 Proceedings within section

The submission to the Naturalization
Service of an application te file a peti-
tion for naturalization cannot, in a legal

SABESS

Peas

Page 686

1962 Amondment. Pub.¥. 87-cot sub-
sUtuted the ecatchline “Obstruction of
Proceedings before departments, agen.
cies, and committces” for “Tnfluencing or
injuring witness before agencies and
committees” and punished the willful ra.
moval, concealment, destruction, mutiia-
tion, alteration or falsification of docue
ments which were the subject of a de-
mand under the Antitrust Civil Process
Act if done with the intent to prevent
compliance with a elvil investigative de«
mand,

Legislative History: For legislative his.
tory and purpose of Pub.lu. S7-664, sea

1962 U.S.Code Cong. and Adm.News, p..

2567,

Decisions

sense, have pendency throughout the en-
tire United States withia meaning of this.
section ercating a. criminal offense
against one whe corruptly attempta te
obstruct or impede the due and proper
administration of law, under which suck
a proceeding is had before a department
or agency of the United States, Taran
vy. U. 8, C.AMinn.7959, 968 F.2d Sit,

In prosceution for corruptly ondeuver-
ing to influenee and impede due ail
proper administration of law in relativa
to a naturalization proceeding allegedly
pending. before Immigration Service,
based on a false statement allegedir
made in defendant's application for pare
don regarding other arrests and cons
tions against him, naturalization pron
ececding was not pending in 1952 befnre
the Service when the defendant mace
the application for pardon, nor when
Pardon was obtained by him, so as to
authorize conviction, where at the time
of charged offense the Service had no ar-
plication in its hands, in that it r

ed the naturalization application as net
having been entitled to be submitted and
returned it to defendant, and defeutant

subsequently gubmitted a new app
tion in 1955 having no relation to what
was done in 1951. 1d.

“Proceeding” within this section ia-
cludes any investigation whieh is dirceted
by formal order of Securities and Ex-
change Commission and at which desiz-
nated officer takes testimony under cath.
U. S. v. Batten, D.C.0.C.1964, 296 F.Supp.
402, certiorari dented 85 S.Ct. S98 oo
US. 912, 13 Ed. 2d 799, reheariag deni
&3 S.Ct. 1557, 881 U.S. 030, 14 V.ed.2d oN.

996

Ch. 73

4. Witne

One wh
able wit
and who
ness” the
defendant
when anc
proseeutlhe
and corr:
false and
ate Comn
&.

3. Indiets

Indictnic
lawfully,
corruptly
and ¢orru;
struct and
cise of po
cifie acts,
and partic:
from Senat
jon invole
sonable re}
quiry of :
concealing
momorands
which bore
matter of i
liclently el
section dea
jJuring witr
inittees, UU.
IST F.Supp.

Indictmen
fawfaliy, wi
tuptiy influ
corruptly e
and impede
power of ing,
particularly
Wally destro
Senate Seleet
voice or reco
lation te sub,
ale Seleet Co
withholding
containing 1
reasonable r
inquiry, and
lismissed, o1
judicata app
inent chargi:
refusal toe ar
Select Commi

Indictment
lawfully, will
ruptly influer
corruptly one
and impede

jsion Notes

Amendment. Pub.tu. 87-664 say.
d the ecatehline “Obstruction : o¢
lings before departments,, asen.
nd committees” for “Influencing ag |
g witness before agencies gag
‘Aittess” and punished the willful ne -
al, concealment, destruction, mutity.
yalteration oF falsification of doege..
s which were the subject of a de
@ under the Antitrust Civil Process
jit dune with the intent te preveng
gitance with a civil investigative Je
2. Lyne

:
‘
é
i
}
j
t
i
a
t

e

, ay
iistative History: For legislative his
and purpose of Pub.L. 87-U04, ane
US.Code Cong. and Adm.News, -pe

ons

1 OA yee ere

have pendeney throughout the ons
[United States within meaning of this
jon ereating 4 Criminal offense
‘ast ane who corruptly atlempta to
yuet or impede the due and proper
Anistration of Jaw, under which suck ;
Soroeding is had before a department ,
isency af the Tnited States, Tura.
2 SB. C.A.Minn.1939, 266 P.2d 56h

a7

i prosecution for corruptly endeavor~
gto influence and impede due and
der adivinistration of law in relatioa
t naturalization proeecding allesedly
Ting before Iminigsation Service.
flo on a false statement allegedly
2 iu defendant’s application for pare
4 Pegarding other arrests and convice
: ust hin, naturalization proe

© was not pending in 1051 hefore-
rice When the defendant made
application for pardon, nor whet.

ve conviction, where at the tie,
guurged offense the Services had no aR°
‘&uloa in its hands, in that it regards”
she naturalization application: as avs~

luently submitted a new applcar:
, in 1995 having no relation to what,
dune in 1951, Id. a
veeeding’ within this sectiom ites
iy Investigation whieh is directed:
mal order of Securities and Ex--
@ Commission and at which
oficer takea testimony underoath.
y. atten, D.C. D.C.190, 226 P.Supe-
} certiorarl denied 85 S.Ct. Sis.
£12, 13 TNd.2d 799, rehearing denied
“t 1557, 381 US. 930, HL. Race 3

HY 50955 Docid

ch. 73
Witness within section .
ep whom defendant knew was prob-
witness before Senate Comunittce
Wo iutended to testify was a wite
though not under subpoena when
ant gave him false story to tell
1and if he testified, for purposes of
ntions for subernation of perjury
/y vorroptly influencing witness to give
ind perjurions information to Sen-
ommittee investigators, Stein ¥. U.
- CACALIG 337 F.2d i, certiorari
tod $3 S.Ct. $50, 280 U.S. 907, 19 Tnd.

Intietiment or information

tient charging that defendant un-
s,afully, wilfully, and knowlngly did
aptly influence, obstruct and impede
} corruptly endeavor to ‘influence, ob-
and impede due and proper exer
vt power of inquiry by certain spe-
cine nets, particularly altering, defacing
partially destroying and withholding
enate Select Committce certain un-
invoice or record, which hore rea-
we relation to subject matter of in-
ty of Senate Select Committee, and
‘aling and withholding envelope and
orandum containing union's records,
ich bore reasonable relation te subject
or of inquiry, and relevant toe it, suf-

on dealing with influcncing or in-

turing witness before agencies and com-
‘ees. U. S. ¥. Presser, D.C.Ohio 1920,

hy F.Supp, Gs.

Indictment charging that defendant un-
tosfully, wilfully and knowingly did cor-
ruptly influence, obstruct and impede and
uptly endeavor to iufluence, obstruct”
wel impede due and proper exercise of
over of inguiry by certain specific acts,
riicularly altezing, defacing and par-
sy destroying and withholding from

OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE

ntiy charged an offense under this

18 § 1505

power of inquiry by certain specific acts,
particularly altering. defacing and par-
tially destroying and withholding from
Senate Select Cominittee certain union
invoice or record, which bore reasonable
relatinn to subject matter of inquiry of
Senate Select Committee, and concealing
and withholding envelope and memoran-
dum containing wnion’s records, which
bere reasonable relation to subject mat-
ter of inquiry, and relevant to it, would
not be dismissed, on ground of double
jeopardy, because of prior indictment
charging defendant with unlawful refusal
to answer question before Senate Select
Committee, ,since same facts would not
prove each case. Id.

‘An indictment for conspiracy to vio-
Jate erminal code by subornation of per:
jury ia preceeding before the Federal
Petroleum Goard was not subject to crit-
jelsm that it was too vague, contradic-
torr, duplicitous, uncertain and indefalte.
U. S. v. Brumfield, D.C.00.1949, 83 F.
Supp. 696. °

c. Evidence

The “two witness rule’ wags not appli-
cable in showing that deferidant violated
this section proscribing obstruction of
justice by influencing witness te give
false testimony and information to Sen-
ate Committee and its investigators, and
testimony of one person alone was suffi-
cient to convict. Stein v. U. &., Cc.ACal.
1964, 337 F.2d 14, certiorari denied 835 §.Ct.
§59, 380 U.S. 907, 13 L.3d.2d 105,

Tostimony of one person alone is suffi-
cient te convict defendant for obstructing
Justice ju influencing witness to give
false testimony to Senate Committee and
tc give false and perjurious information
to committee investigators. Id.

Evidence. sustained convictions under
counts charging corruptly inducing wit-
ness to testify falsely and corruptly in-

ing been entitled to be submitted amd. .
@ it to defendant, and deferdaat

desit-e...

e Select Committee certain union in-
or record, which bore reasonable re-
tion to subject matter of inquiry of Sen-
e Select Committee, and concealing and
vithholdlug envelope and momorandum
contalning “union’s records, which bore
sonable relation to subject matter of
ulry, and relevant to it, would not ba
missed, on ground that doetrine of res
ata applied because of prior indict-
mnt charging defendant with unlawful
usal to answer question before Senate
Select Committee, 1a."

fiuencing him to give false and perjurious
information to investigators of Senate
Cominittee. Id.

1, Questions for jury

Whether deféndant charged with ch-
struction of justice in Securities and Px-
change Commission's investigation by in-
ducing person to testify falsely that he
had purchased certain securities through
firm of which defendant was head and
had resold securities to that firm Knew
that witness would be asked to testify
under oath was jury question, U. 5. ¥v.
Batten, D.C.D.C.1964, 226 F.Supp. 492, cer-
tiorarl denied 85 S.Ct. 698, 380 U.S. 912,
vorcuptly endeavor to tufluence, obstruct 13 1.18d.2d 799, rehearing denied $3 $.Ct.
sud finpede due and proper exercise of 1557, 381 U.S. 930, 14 T.d.2d 68S.

597

ay

Indietment charging that defendant un:
lawfuily, wilfully and knowingly did cor-
ruptly infuenee, obstruct and impede and


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§ 1504 TITLE 18,-CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

AMENDMENTS
1968—Pub. L. 90-578 substituted “United States magis-
trate’ and “magistrate” for “United States commissioner”
and “commissioner”, in two instances, respectively.
, Cross REFERENCES

Bribery of officers, jurors or r witnesses, see section 201
et seq. of this title.

Influencing juror or witness as criminal contempt, see
section 401 of this title.

Wire or oral communications, authorization for inter-
ception, to provide evidence of offenses under this section,
see section 2516 of this title.

SECTION REerenreD TO IN OTHER Secrions

This section Is referred to in sections 201, 1961, 2516
of this title.

§ 1504. Influencing juror by writing.

Whoever attempts to influence the action or de-
cision of any grand or petit juror of any court of the
United States upon any issue or matter pending
before such juror, or before the jury of which he is @
member, or pertaining to his duties, by writing or
sending to him any written communication, in rela-
tion to such issue or matter, shall be fined not more
than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than six months.
or both.

Nothing in this section shall be construed to
prohibit the communication of a request to appear
before the grand jury. (June 25, 1948, ch. 645,
62 Stat. 770.) ‘ .

Lecistative HisTor¥Y

Reviser’s Note —-Based on title 18, U. 3S. C., 1940 ed.,
§ 243 (Mar. 4, 1908, ch. 321, § 137, 35 Stat. 1113).

Last paragraph was added to remove the possibility that
@ proper request to appear before a grand jury might be
construed as a technical violation of this section.

Minor changes were made in phraseology.

Cross REFERENCES

Bribery of public officials and witnesses, see section 201
of thia title. :

Minor offenses tried by United States magistrates as
excluding offenses punishable under this section, see
section 3401 of this title.

SECTION REFERRED To IN OTHER SECTIONS

This section is referred to in section 202 of this title.

§ 1505. Obstruction of proceedings before depart-
ments, agencies, and committees.

Whoever corruptly, or by threats or force, or by any

threatening letter or communication, endeavors to

‘influence, intimidate, or impede any witness in any

proceeding pending before any department or agency
of the United States, or in connection with any in-
quiry or investigation being had. by either House, or
any committee of either House, or any joint commit-
tee of the Congress; or

Whoever injures any party or witness in. his per-
son or property on account of his attending or having
attended such proceeding, inquiry, or investigation,

or on account of his testifying or having testified to :

any matter pending therein; or

Whoever, with intent to avoid, evade, prevent, or
obstruct compliance in whole or in part with any
civil investigative demand duly and properly made

j under the Antitrust Civil Process Act or section 1968

of this title willfully removes from any place, con-
ceals, destroys, mutilates, alters, or by other means
falsifies any documentary material which is the
subject of such demand; or

Whoever corruptly, or by threats or force, or by
any threatening letter or communication influences,

Page 4312

obstructs, or impedes or endeavors to influence, ob-
struct, or impede the due and proper administration
of the law under which such proceeding is being had
before such department or agency of the United
States, or the due and proper exercise of the power
of inquiry under which such inquiry or investigation
is being had by either House, or any committee of
either House or any joint committee of the Con-
gress—

Shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned —

not more than five years, or both. (June 25, 1948,
ch, 645, 62 Stat. 770; Sept. 19, 1962, Pub. L. 87-664,
§ 6(a), 76 Stat. 551; Oct. 15, 1970, Pub. L. 91-452,
title TX, § 903, 84 Stat. 947.)

LEcisLative History
Reviser's Note-—Based on title 18, U. S. C., 1940 ed.,
§ 241a (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321, § 135a, aa added Jan. 13,
1940, ch. 1, 64 Stat. 18; June 8, 1945, ch. 178, § 2, 69

_ Stat. 234).

Word “agency” was substituted for the words “independ-
ent establishment, board, commission” in two instances
to eliminate any possible ambiguity as to scope of sec-
tion. (See definitive section 6 of this titie.)

Minor changes were made in phraseology.

REFERENCES IN TEXT
The Antitrust Civil Process Act, referred to in text,
ia classified to chapter 34 of Title 15, Commerce and Trade.
AMENDMENTS

1970-——-Pub. L. 91-452 added reference to section 1968
of this tithe.

1962—Pub. L. 87-664 substituted the catchline “Ob-
struction of proceedings before departments, agencies, and
committees” for “Influencing or injuring witness before
agencies and committees" and punished the willful re-
moval, concealment, destruction, mutilation, alteration or
falsification of documents which were the subject of a
demand under the Antitrust Civil Process Act if done with
the intent to prevent compliance with a civil investigative
demand.

Cross REFERENCES
Bribery of public officials or witnesses, see section 201
of this titie.
Secrion Rererrep To In OTHer SECTIONS

This section is referred to in section 203 of thig title;
title 12 sectiom 1457.

515 Theft or alteration of record or process; false
ail,

Whoever felontously steals, takes away, alters, fal-
sifies, or otherwise avoids any record, writ, process,
or other proceeding, in any court of the United
States, whereby any judgment is reversed, made
void, or does not take effect; or

Whoever acknowledges, or procures to be acknowl-
edged im any such court, any recognizance, bail, or
judgment, in the name of any other person not
privy or consenting to the same—

Shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned
not more than five years, or both. (June 25, 1948,
ch, 645, 62 Stat. 770.) -

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY

Reviser’s Note.—Based on title 18, U.S. C., 1940 ed., § 233
(Mar, 4, 1908, ch. 321, § 127. 35 Stat, 1111).

The term of imprisonment was reduced from 7 to §
years, to conform the punishment with Hke ones for
similar offenses. (See section 1503 of this title.) _

Minor changes were made in phraseology.

Cross RerereNces
Concealment, removal or destruction of records, see
section 2071 of this title.

Embezzlement or theft of records, generally, see section
641 of this ttle.

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*

TITLE 18.—CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

§ 1504
AMENDMENTS

1968—Pub. L. 90-578 substituted “United States magis-
trate’ and “magistrate” for “United States commissioner"

_ and “commissioner”, in two instances, respectively.

Cross REFERENCES

Bribery of officers, Jurors or witnesses, see section 201
et seq. of this title.

Influencing juror or witness as criminal contempt, see
section 401 of this title.

Wire or oral communications, authorization for inter-
ception, to provide evidence of offenses under this section,
see section 2516 of this title.

SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS

This section is referred to in sections 201, 1961, 2516
of this title. -

§ 1504. Influencing juror by writing.

Whoever attempts to influence the action or de-
cision of any grand or petit juror of any court of the
United States upon any issue or matter pending
before such juror, or before the jury of which he is a
member, or pertaining to his duties, by writing or
sending to him any written communication, in rela-
tion to such issue or matter, shall be fined not more
than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than six months.
or both.

Nothing in this section shall be construed to
prohibit the communication of a request to appear
before the grand jury. (June 25, 1948, ch. 645,
62 Stat. 770.)

Leeisiativs History

Reviser’s Note.—-Based on title 18, U. S. C., 1940 ed.,
$243 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321, § 137, 35 Stat. 1113).

Last paragraph was added to remove the possibility that
a proper request to appear before a grand jury might be
construed as a technical violation of this section.

Minor changes were made in phraseology.

Cross REFERENCES

Bribery of public officials and witnesses, see section 201
of this title. . .

Minor offenses tried by United States magistrates as
excluding offenses punishable under this section, see
section 3401 of this title.

Secrion ReErerrReD To In OTHer SecTioNs

This section is referred to in section 202 of this title.

$1505. Obstruction of proceedings before depart-
ments, agencies, and committees.

Whoever corruptly, or by threats or force, or by any
threatening letter ox, communication, endeavors to
influence, intimidate, or impede any witness in any
proceeding pending before any department or agency
of the United States, or in connection with any in-
quiry or investigation being had by either House, or
any committee of either House, or any joint commit-
tee of the Congress; or :

Whoever injures any party or witness in his per-
son or property on account of his attending or having

‘attended such proceeding, inquiry, or investigation,

or on account of his testifying or having testified to
any matter pending therein; or
Whoever, with intent to avoid, evade, prevent, or

‘obstruct compliance in whole or in part with any
_civil investigative demand duly and properly made
j under the Antitrust Civil Process Act or section 1968

of this title willfully removes from any place, con-
ceals, destroys, mutilates, alters, or by other means
falsifies any documentary material which is the
subject of such demand; or

Whoever corruptly, or by threats or force, or by
any threatening letter or communication influences,

Page 4312

obstructs, or impedes or endeavors to influence, ob-
struct, or impede the due and proper administration
of the law under which such proceeding is being had.
before such department or agency of the United
States, or the due and proper exercise of the power
of inquiry under which such inquiry or investigation
is being had by either House, or any committee of

either House or any joint committee of the Con-
gress-— :

Shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned —

not more than five years, or both. (June 25, 1948,
ch, 645, 62 Stat. 770; Sept. 19, 1962, Pub. L. 87-664,
§6(a), 76 Stat. 651; Oct. 15, 1970, Pub. L. 91-452,
title IX, $903, 84 Stat. 947.)

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY

Reviser’s Note—Based on title 18, U. S. C., 1940 ed.,
§24ia (Mar. 4, 1908, ch. 321, § 195a, as added Jan. 13,
1940, ch. 1, 64 Stat. 13; June 8, 1945, ch. 178. § 2, 59
Stat. 234).

Word “agency” was substituted for the words “independ-
ent establishment, board, commission” in two Instances
to eliminate any possible ambiguity as to scope of sec-
tion. (See definitive section @ of this title.)

Minor changes were made in phraseology.

REFERENCES IN TEXT
The Antitrust Civil Process Act, referred to in text,
is classified to chapter 34 of Title 15, Commerce and Trade.
AMENDMENTS

1970-——Pub, L. 91-452 added reference to section 1968
of this title.

1962—Pub. L. 87-064 substituted the catchline “Ob-
struction of proceedings before departments, agencies, and
committees” for “Influencing or injuring witness before
agencies and committees” and punished the willful re-
moval, concealment, destruction, mutilation, alteration or
falsification of documents which were the subject of a
demand under the Antitrust Civil Process Act if done with
the intent to prevent compliance with a civil investigative
demand.

Cross RE¥ERENCES
Bribery of public offictals or witnesses, see section 201
of this title.
SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS

This section is referred to in section 203 of this title;
title 12 section 1457.

5 1506. jrheft or alteration of record or process; false
ail.

Whoever feloniously steals, takes away, alters, fal-
sifies, or otherwise avoids any record, writ, process,
or other proceeding, in any court of the United
States, whereby any judgment is reversed, made
void, or does not take effect; or

Whoever acknowledges, or procures to be acknowl-
edged im any such court, any recognizance, bail, or
judgment, in the name of any other person not
privy or consenting to the same—

Shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned
not more than five years, or both. (June 25, 1948,
ch. 645, 62 Stat. 770.) *

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY

Reviser’s Note.—Based on title 16, U. 5. C., 1940 ed., § 233
(Mar, 4, 1909, ch. 321, § 127. 35 Stat, 1112).

The term of imprisonment was reduced from 7 to 5
years, to conform the punishment with like ones for
eimllar offenses. (See section 1503 of this title.)

Minor changes were made in phraseology.

Cross REFERENCES .

Concealment, removal or destruction of records, see
section 2071 of ‘this title.

Embezzlement or theft of records, generally, see section
641 of this titis.

ine


TITLE 18,CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

§ 1504

AMENDMENTS

1968—FPub. L. 90-578 substituted ‘United States magis-
trate’ and ‘magistrate’ for "United States commissioner”
and “commissioner”, tn two instances, respectively.

. Cross REFERENCES

Bribery of officers, jurors or witnesses, see section 201
et seq. of this title,

Influencing Juror or witness as criminal contempt, see
section 401 of this title.

Wire or oral communications, authorization for inter-
ception, to provide evidence of offenses under this section,
see section 2516 of this title.

SECTION Rerenrep TO IN OTHER SECTIONS

_This section is referred to in sections 201, 1961, 2516
of this title.

§ 1504. Influencing juror by writing.

Whoever attempts to influence the action or de-
cision of any grand or petit juror of any court of the
United States upon any issue or matter pending
before such juror, or before the jury of which he is a
member, or pertaining to his duties, by writing or:
sending to him any written communication, in rela-
tion to such issue or matter, shall be fined not more
than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than six months.
or both.

Nothing in this section shall be construed to
prohibit the communication of a request to appear
before the grand jury. (June 25, 1948, ch. 645.

62 Stat. 770.)
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY

.Aeviser’s Note.—Based on titie 18, U. S. C., 1940 ed.
§ 243 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321, § 137, 35 Stat. 1113).
Last paragraph was added to remove the possibility that
@ proper request to appear before a grand jury might be
construed as a technical violation of this section.
. Minor changes were made in phraseology.
Cross REFERENCES

Bribery of public officials and witnesses, see section 202
of this title.

Minor offenses tried by United States magistrates as
excluding offenses punishable under this section, see
section 3401 of this title. .

SECTION REFERRED To IN OTFrer SECTIONS

This section is referred to in section 202 of this title.

§ 1505. Obstruction of preceedings before depart-
ments, agencies, and committees,

Whoever corruptly, or by threats or force, or by any
threatening letter or communication, endeavors to
influence, intimidate, or impede any witness in any
proceeding pending before any department or agency
of the United States, or in connection with any in-

. quiry or investigation being had by either House, or
any committee of either House, or any joint commit-
tee of the Congress; or:

Whoever injures any party or witness in his per-
son or property on account of his attending or having
attended such proceeding, inquiry, or investigation,
or on account of his testifying or having testified to
any matter pending therein; or -

Whoever, with intent to avoid, evade, prevent, or
obstruct compliance in whole or in part with any
civil investigative demand duly and properly made
| under the Antitrust Civil Process Act or section 1968
of this title willfully removes from any place, con-
ceals, destroys, mutilates, alters, or by other means
falsifies any documentary material which is the
subject of such demand; or

Whoever corruptly, or by threats or force, or by
any threatening letter or communication influences,

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obstructs, or impedes or endeavors to influence, ob-
struct, or impede the due and proper administration
of the law under which such proceeding is being had
before such department or agency of the United
States, or the due and proper exercise of the power
of inquiry under which such inquiry or investigation
is being had by either House, or any committee of

‘either House or any Joint committee of the Con-

gress—
Shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned

not more than five years, or both. (June 25, 1948,

ch, 645, 62 Stat. 770; Sept. 19, 1962, Pub. L. 87-664,
§6(a), 76 Stat. 551; Oct. 15, 1870, Pub. L. 91-452,
title CX, § 903, 84 Stat. 947.)

Leaistative HIsTory

Reviser’s Note —Based on title 18, U.S. C., 1940 ed.,
§24la (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 921, § 135a, as added Jan. 13,
1940, ch. 1, 54 Stat. 13; June 8, 1946, ch. 178, § 2, 66
Stat. 234).

Word “agency” was substituted for the words “independ-
ent establishment, board, commission” in two Instances
to eliminate any possible ambiguity as to scope of sec-
tion. (See definitive section 6 of this title.)

Minor changes were made in phraseology.

REFERENCES IN TEXT

The Antitrust Civil Process Act, referred to in text,
is classified to chapter 34 of Title 15, Commerce and Trade.

AMENDMENTS

1970—-Pub, L. 91-452 added reference to section 1968
of this title.

1962—-Pub, L, 87-664 substituted the catchitne “Ob-
struction of proceedings before departments, agencies, and
committees" for “Influencing or tnjuring witness before
agencies and committees” and punished the willful re-
moval, concealment, destruction, mutilation, alteration or
falsification of documents which were the subject of a
demand under the Antitrust Civil Process Act if done with
the intent to prevent compliance with a civil investigative
demand, :

Cros’ REFERENCES

Bribery of public officials or witnesses, see section 201

of this title.

SEcTION REFERRED To IN OTHER SECTIONS

This section Is referred to in section 203 of this title;
title 12 sectiom 1457.

§ 1506. Theft or alteration of record or process; false
ail.

Whoever feloniously steals, takes away, alters, fal-
sifles, or otherwise avoids any record, writ, process,
or other proceeding, in any court, of the United
States, whereby any judgment is reversed, made
void, or does not take effect; or

Whoever acknowledges, or procures to be acknowl-
edged fa any such court, any recognizance, bail, or
‘judgment, in the name of any other person not
privy or consenting to the same—

Shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned
not more than five years, or both. (June 25, 1948,

ch. 645, 62 Stat. 776.) °

. LeeisLAtive History

Reviser’s Note-—Based on title 18, U. 3. C., 1940 ed., § 233
(Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 331, § 127, 35 Stat. 1112). :

The term of imprisonment was reduced from 7. to 6
years, to conform the punishment with like ones for
similar offenses. (See section 1503 of this title.) |

Minor changes were made in phraseology.

Cross REFERENCES ‘

Concealment, removal or destruction of records, see
section 2071 of this title.

Embezzlement or theft of records, generally, see section
641 of this title.


TITLE 18.—CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

§ 1504

AMENDMENTS °

1968—Pub. L. 90-578 substituted “United States magis-
trate” and “magistrate” for “United States commissioner”
and “commissioner”, in two instances, respectively.
Cross REFERENCES

Bribery of officers, jurors or witnesses, see section 201
et seq. of this title.

Influencing juror or witness as criminal contempt, see
section 401 of this title.

Wire or oral communications, authorization for inter-
ception, to provide evidence of offenses under this section,
see section 2516 of this title,

SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS

This section is referred. to in sections 201, 1961, 2514
of this title.

§ 1504. Influencing juror by writing.

Whoever attempts to influence the action or de-
cision of any grand or petit juror of any court of the
United States upon any issue or matter pending
before such juror, or before the jury of which he is a
member, or pertaining to his duties, by writing or
sending to him any written communication, in rela-
tion to such Issue or matter, shall be fined not more
than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than six months.
or both.

Nothing in this section shall be construed to
prohibit the communication of a request to appear
before the grand jury. (June 25, 1948, ch. 645,

62 Stat. 770.)
LEGISLATIVE History

Reviser’s Note Based on title 18, U. S. C,, 1940 ed.
§ 243 (Mar. 4, 1908, ch. 321, § 137, 35 Stat. 1113}.

Last paragtaph was added to remove the possibility that
a proper request to appear before a grand jury might be
construed as a technical violation of this section.

Minor changes were made in phraseology.

Czoss R&FrenENcEs

Bribery of public officials and witnesses, see section 201
of this title.

Minor offenses tried by United States magistrates as
excluding offenses punishable under this section, see
section 3401 of this title.

SECTION REFERRED To IN OTHER SEcTiOWs |

This section is referred to In section 202 of this title.

§ 1506. Obstruction of proceedings before depart-
ments, agencies, and committees,

Whoever corruptly, or by threats or force, or by any
threatening letter or communication, endeavors to
influence, intimidate, or impede any witness in any
proceeding pending before any department or agency
of the United States, or in connection with any in-
quiry or investigation being had by either House, or
any committee of either House, or any joint commit-
tee of the Congress; or .

Whoever injures any party or witness in his per-
son or property on account of his attending or having
attended such proceeding, inquiry, or investigation,
or on account of his testifying or having testified to
any matter pending therein; or

Whoever, with intent to avoid, evade, prevent, or
obstruct compliance in whole or in part with any
civil investigative demand duly and properly made

| under the Antitrust Civil Process Act or section 1968

of this title willfully removes from any place, con-
ceals, destroys, mutilates, alters, or by other means
falsifies any documentary material which is the
subject of such demand; or

Whoever corruptly, or by threats or force, or by
-any threatening letter or communication influences,

. Page 4312

obstructs, or impedes or endeavors to influence, ob-
struct, or impede the due and proper administration
of the law under which such proceeding is being had
before such department or agency of the United
States, or the due and proper exercise of the power
of inquiry under which such inquiry or investigation
is being had ‘by either House, or any committee of
either House or any joint committee of the Con-~
gress— .
Shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned —

hot more than five years, or both. (June 25, 1948,

ch. 645, 62 Stat. 770; Sept. 19, 1962, Pub. L. 87-664,
§6(a), 76 Stat. 551; Oct. 15, 1970, Pub. L. 91-452,
title DX, § 903, 84 Stat. 947.)

LEGIsLaTive History
Reviser's Note-—-Based on title 18, U. S. C., 1940 ed.
§24la (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321, § 1352, as added Jan. 13,

1940, ch. 1, 54 Stat. 13; June 8, 1945, ch. 176, § 2, 58
Stat. 234).

Word “agency” was substituted for the words “independ-
ent establishment, board, commission" in two instances
to eliminate any. possible ambiguity as to scope of sec-
tion. (See definitive section 6 of this title.)

Minor changes were made in phraseology.

REFERENCES IN TEXT
The Antitrust Civil Process Act, referred to in text,
1s classified to chapter 34 of Title 15, Commerce and Trade.
AMENDMENTS

1970—Pub. L. 91-452 added reference to section 1968
of this title. : .

1962—Pub. L. 87-664 substituted the catchline “Ob-
struction of proceedings before departments, agencies, and
committees” for “Influencing or injuring witness before
agencies and committees” and punished the willful re-
moval, concealment, destruction, mutilation, alteration or
falsification of documents which were the subject of a
demand under the Antitrust Civil Process Act if done with
the intent to prevent compliance with a civil investigative
demand. :

Cross REFERENCES

Bribery of public officials or witnesses, see section 201

of this title. .

Szcrion RerznkeD To in OrrerR SEcTIONS

This section ts referred to Im section 203 of this title;
title 12 section 1457.

§ 1506. Theft or alteration of record or process; false
aul.

Whoever feloniously steals, takes away, alters, fal-
sifies, or otherwise avoids any record, writ, process,
or other proceeding, in any court of the United
States, whereby any judgment is reversed, made
void, or does not take effect; or

Whoever acknowledges, or procures to be acknow!l-
edged im any such court, any recognizance, bail, or
judgment, in the name of any other person not
privy or consenting to the same—

Shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned
not more than five years, or both. (June 25, 1948,
ch. 645, 62 Stat. 770.) -

LEGISLATIVE HisTrory

Reviser's Note.—Based on title 16, U.S. C., 1940 ed., § 233
(Mar. 4,.1909, ch. 331, § 127, 36 Stat. 1211).

The term of imprisonment was reduced from 7 to 5
years, to conform the punishment with Hke ones for
similar offenses. (See section 1503 of this title.)

Minor changes were made in phraseology.

. Cross Rererences
Concealment, removal or destruction of records, see
section 2071 of this title.
Embezzlement or theft of records, generally, see section
641 of this title. .


